Patents by Inventor Stephen DOWER

Stephen DOWER 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).

  • Integrating external program code with spreadsheet application
    Patent number: 12619816
    Abstract: A data processing system implements receiving a first input in a spreadsheet in a spreadsheet application, detecting an indication that the first input includes first executable program code, analyzing the first executable program code to identify first references to one or more first elements of the spreadsheet in the first executable program code, requesting spreadsheet data associated with the one or more first elements of the spreadsheet from the spreadsheet application, receiving the spreadsheet data from the spreadsheet application; executing the first executable program code using the spreadsheet data referenced in the first executable program code to obtain a first program code result and causing the spreadsheet application to display the first program code result in the spreadsheet application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph John McDaid, Keyur Patel, Arturo Goicochea Hoefken, Eoin Burke, Su-Piao Wu, James Masson, Christopher Gross, Jake Elliot Armstrong, Carlos Augusto Otero, John Herbert Martin Williams, Nicholas Charles Wilson, Andrew Donald Gordon, Neil Toronto, Anders Hejlsberg, Guido Van Rossum, Shaofeng Zhu, Stephen Dower, John Lam
  • INTEGRATING EXTERNAL PROGRAM CODE WITH SPREADSHEET APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20250068835
    Abstract: A data processing system implements receiving a first input in a spreadsheet in a spreadsheet application, detecting an indication that the first input includes first executable program code, analyzing the first executable program code to identify first references to one or more first elements of the spreadsheet in the first executable program code, requesting spreadsheet data associated with the one or more first elements of the spreadsheet from the spreadsheet application, receiving the spreadsheet data from the spreadsheet application; executing the first executable program code using the spreadsheet data referenced in the first executable program code to obtain a first program code result and causing the spreadsheet application to display the first program code result in the spreadsheet application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph John MCDAID, Keyur PATEL, Arturo GOICOCHEA HOEFKEN, Eoin BURKE, Su-Piao WU, James MASSON, Christopher GROSS, Jake Elliot ARMSTRONG, Carlos Augusto OTERO, John Herbert Martin WILLIAMS, Nicholas Charles WILSON, Andrew Donald GORDON, Neil TORONTO, Anders HEJLSBERG, Guido VAN ROSSUM, Shaofeng ZHU, Stephen DOWER, John LAM