INTERACTING WITH DATA FROM A DOCUMENT VIA DOCUMENT AN APPLICATION PAGES

• US 20160055128A1
• Filed: 11/04/2015
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Bhargav, Rajat, Maloo, Raghvendra
• Granted Patent: US 10,282,392 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174

Abstract

A document application is used to interact with a document as if the document was an application. Data from the document is automatically/manually selected to be associated with the document application. The document application displays document application pages (DAPs) that are used to interact with the document. One or more DAPs are automatically created using the selected data along with any rules associated with the data. For example, column names from selected data in the document may be used to create data entry/display fields within one or more DAPs and the rules may be used to specify how to interact with the data in the document application. The automatically created default DAPs may be customized by a user. For example, one DAP may be configured to be the starting page for the document application and another DAP may be configured to display a chart.

Claims

1. A method for creating a document application for interacting with a document associated with a default application, the method comprising:

accessing the document via the default application;

selecting data from the document;

automatically creating the document application using the selected data and rules associated with the selected data;

automatically creating at least one default display application page (DAP), the at least one default DAP including at least one field based on the selected data and the associated rules, the at least one default DAP including a display of information obtained directly from the selected data and associated rules;

displaying the at least one default DAP;

receiving configuration information that is used to customize the at least one default DAP; and

storing the configuration information when displaying the document application.