Patents by Inventor Joseph M. Chirilov

Joseph M. Chirilov 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).

  • Patent number: 9275032
    Abstract: Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Johnny S. Campbell, Joseph M. Chirilov, Michael H. Smith, Robert G. Hawking, Rishabh Tandon
  • Patent number: 8621340
    Abstract: Block properties and improved calculated columns properties are provided in a spreadsheet application. Once block properties are set for a group of spreadsheet cells or a spreadsheet list, the properties may be applied to the entire group of selected cells or list as opposed to requiring application of properties to individual cells. If rows or columns are added to the group of selected cells or list, properties applied to the group of cells or list are automatically applied to the new rows or columns. Block properties also provide for intelligent-behaving list borders where list borders are not corrupted by the movement or changing of columns or rows sharing edges with a list border. Calculated columns are a type of block property that extends the functionality of formulas throughout an entire column of an associated group of cells or list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph M. Chirilov, Dennis R. Newland, Eoin J. Burke, Hannah W. Zhou, John C. Haymond, Juha P. Niemisto, Robert C. Collie, Robert W. Coffen, Thao Moua
  • Publication number: 20120216103
    Abstract: Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Johnny S. Campbell, Joseph M. Chirilov, Michael H. Smith, Robert G. Hawking, Rishabh Tandon
  • Patent number: 8190987
    Abstract: Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny S. Campbell, Joseph M. Chirilov, Michael H. Smith, Robert G. Hawking, Rishabh Tandon
  • Patent number: 7756824
    Abstract: Techniques for collaborating on a spreadsheet file by client computers in real time are disclosed herein. In particular, a revision manager module is preferably provided with a host machine which receives updates from the client computers, processes such updates, and then applies them to the spreadsheet file. Additionally, a technique is described for handling updates sent to the revision manager by clients simultaneously or near simultaneously. In this case, the revision manager determines whether the updates to the spreadsheet file are transformable or able to be merged. If so, the updates are combined into the spreadsheet file and applied thereto. If the updates are not transformable, the revision manager confirms that all clients have received all previous updates before applying the non-transformable update to the spreadsheet file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny S. Campbell, Joseph M. Chirilov, Michael H. Smith, Rishabh Tandon, Robert G. Hawking, Robert L. Archer
  • Patent number: 7698287
    Abstract: The present invention provides several database formulas that can manipulate large sets of data. Each database formula is customizable and repeatable without user intervention. Thus, users may enter numerous options that can cover the user's desire for data output in certain forms or formats, select a set of input data, and consistently receive a set of output data. In some embodiments, the user may refer to the set of data semantically instead of specifying a range of cells to use in the database formula. Referring to the data semantically allows the database formulas to adjust to changes in the range of cells new data may occupy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Becker, Charles D. Ellis, Joseph M. Chirilov, Juha P. Niemisto, Matthew J. Androski, Robert C. Collie, Robert G. Hawking, Simon Peyton-Jones
  • Publication number: 20090172063
    Abstract: A multi-threaded codeless user-defined function (UDF) may be provided. First, at least one input value may be received from a calculation thread corresponding to a spreadsheet calling the codeless UDF. Then, the at least one input value may be saved in a thread storage area outside of a UDF storage area containing the codeless UDF. Next, the codeless UDF may be performed comprising performing at least one calculation using at least one formula in the codeless UDF and the at least one input value from the thread storage area. At least one output value produced in response to performing the codeless UDF may then be returned to the calculation thread corresponding to the spreadsheet calling the codeless UDF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph M. Chirilov, Jeffrey J. Duzak, Andrew J. Becker, Charles D. Ellis
  • Publication number: 20090112990
    Abstract: Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny S. Campbell, Joseph M. Chirilov, Michael H. Smith, Robert G. Hawking, Rishabh Tandon
  • Publication number: 20090112937
    Abstract: Techniques for collaborating on a spreadsheet file by client computers in real time are disclosed herein. In particular, a revision manager module is preferably provided with a host machine which receives updates from the client computers, processes such updates, and then applies them to the spreadsheet file. Additionally, a technique is described for handling updates sent to the revision manager by clients simultaneously or near simultaneously. In this case, the revision manager determines whether the updates to the spreadsheet file are transformable or able to be merged. If so, the updates are combined into the spreadsheet file and applied thereto. If the updates are not transformable, the revision manager confirms that all clients have received all previous updates before applying the non-transformable update to the spreadsheet file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny S. Campbell, Joseph M. Chirilov, Michael H. Smith, Robert G. Hawking, Rishabh Tandon, Robert L. Archer
  • Patent number: 7415481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new type of structured name within a spreadsheet program that allows users to refer to tables, columns of data within tables, headers of tables, totals from tables, PivotTablesĀ®, and portions of PivotTableĀ® data by the data's headers. Embodiments of the present invention comprise a method for referring to a set of data that comprises receiving one or more semantic designations, wherein the one or more semantic designations name a set of context information that describes one or more items of data in a data structure, automatically creating a structural reference, and associating the context information with the structural reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Becker, Charles D. Ellis, Joseph M. Chirilov, Juha P. Niemisto, Matthew J. Androski, Robert C. Collie, Robert G. Hawking, Simon Peyton-Jones, Weide Zhong