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Auto sizing of fields for displaying computer forms

  • US 6,055,550 A
  • Filed: 03/21/1996
  • Issued: 04/25/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for configuring cell sizes of a computer generated form to optimize display of data from a persistent data source, said method comprising the steps of:

  • accessing a persistent datastore to read a sample of records from a database, said sample of records being less than the total number of records in said database and said sample of records being selected, through a statistical algorithm, so as to generally represent all of said records in said database, said database stores data for a plurality of cells for display as a computer generated form, said data for each record comprising a length;

    determining a single optimal size from said length of data in said sample of records to display said data on said computer generated form; and

    thereafter, rendering said computer generated form on an output display with data from said records displayed in said cells sized to said optimal size, whereby said computer generated form is optimized based on data in said sample of records.

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