Patents by Inventor Jan Spidlen

Jan Spidlen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Automated chart generation within a document generation application using heuristic model with predefined data types
    Patent number: 10380778
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating charts within a document generation application is provided. The method comprises, within a document generation application, tabular data; associating, for each column and each row of the tabular data, the labels and the numerical data contained therein with one of a plurality of data types; determining, without user input, that the tabular data is one of column-oriented or row-oriented; selecting the first column or the first row as corresponding to an x-axis, respectively; applying a heuristic model resulting in a selection of a chart type of a plurality of chart types, the selection made without user input; automatically generating a chart of the selected chart type depicting a graphical representation of the labels and the numerical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Renuka Apte, Jennifer Lee, Jan Spidlen
  • AUTOMATED CHART GENERATION WITHIN A DOCUMENT GENERATION APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20180165851
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating charts within a document generation application is provided. The method comprises, within a document generation application, tabular data; associating, for each column and each row of the tabular data, the labels and the numerical data contained therein with one of a plurality of data types; determining, without user input, that the tabular data is one of column-oriented or row-oriented; selecting the first column or the first row as corresponding to an x-axis, respectively; applying a heuristic model resulting in a selection of a chart type of a plurality of chart types, the selection made without user input; automatically generating a chart of the selected chart type depicting a graphical representation of the labels and the numerical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Renuka Apte, Jennifer Lee, Jan Spidlen