SPREADSHEET VIEWER FACILITY

• US 20140189483A1
• Filed: 03/13/2014
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IntraLinks Incorporated (SS&C Technologies Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: IntraLinks Incorporated (SS&C Technologies Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Hakhinian, Mushegh, Awan, Wasif Qayyum
• Application Number:
  US14/207,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20140189483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/212
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for providing, on a server-based computing device, a spreadsheet viewer facility configured to render a spreadsheet document created by a spreadsheet application as an actively rendered spreadsheet document in a client spreadsheet viewer running on a client computing device without the use of the spreadsheet application running on the client computing device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing, on a server-based computing device, a spreadsheet viewer facility configured to render a spreadsheet document created by a spreadsheet application as an actively rendered spreadsheet document in a client spreadsheet viewer running on a client computing device without the use of the spreadsheet application running on the client computing device;

rendering the spreadsheet document as an actively rendered spreadsheet document from the spreadsheet viewer facility to the client spreadsheet viewer;

transmitting at least one keyboard and mouse action on the client computing device to the spreadsheet viewer facility, wherein the at least one keyboard and mouse action is associated with a selection of a cell in the actively rendered spreadsheet document subsequent to the rendering of the spreadsheet document; and

transmitting a spreadsheet data content for the selection of the cell of the actively rendered spreadsheet document from the spreadsheet viewer facility to the client spreadsheet viewer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the spreadsheet document is received at the client computing device from a second client computing device, where the second client computing device sends the spreadsheet document to the spreadsheet viewer facility for rendering.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the spreadsheet document is received at the server-based computing device for rendering to the client-computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the spreadsheet document is disabled from being opened by the spreadsheet application running on the computing device

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the spreadsheet viewer facility provides permission for access to the spreadsheet document as an actively rendered spreadsheet document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the spreadsheet document is disabled from being opened by the spreadsheet application of a software-as-a-service application.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the spreadsheet viewer facility provides permission for access to the spreadsheet document as an actively rendered spreadsheet document.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the spreadsheet application is at least one of running directly on the server-based computing device and running remotely as a software-as-a-service from a remote networked location.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the spreadsheet data content is at least one of numeric data from the cell, text data from the cell and a formula associated with the cell.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the rendering of the spreadsheet document transforms a plurality of spreadsheet data comprising with the spreadsheet document into the actively rendered spreadsheet document.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the transformation is on a cell-by-cell basis and dependencies among cells are maintained in the transformation.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the client spreadsheet viewer is adapted to provide permission to copy the spreadsheet data content.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the client spreadsheet viewer is adapted to enable editing of the spreadsheet data content in the cell within the client spreadsheet viewer.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the client spreadsheet viewer is adapted to provide permission to take screen-shots of the actively rendered spreadsheet document.

15. The method of claim 1, further wherein the client spreadsheet viewer runs through a browser running on the client computer device.