Patents by Inventor Larry Tseng

Larry Tseng 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).

  • Data source write back and offline data editing and storage in a spreadsheet
    Patent number: 7225189
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for bi-directional communication between a spreadsheet application worksheet and a database data source that allows modified data to be written from a spreadsheet application to source data in a database data source from which the original pre-modified data was obtained. Offline data changes in a spreadsheet application are cached by a data provider application and are published to a remote data source when the spreadsheet application is synchronized with the data source. Error conditions and data conflicts resulting from new or modified data published to a database data source from a spreadsheet application worksheet are reported to a user of the spreadsheet application worksheet through a data provider application to allow the user an opportunity to resolve error conditions and data conflicts between the user's data changes and other data changes made to the same source data contained in the database data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. McCormack, Robert W. Coffen, Richard L. Dickinson, Sumit Chauhan, Su-Piao Bill Wu, Eric W. Patterson, Paul A. Hafner, Larry Tseng, Xiaohui Pan, Michael J. Eatough