US 10,311,080 B2Granted

Filtering and sorting information

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsAllan Folting, Anatoly V. Grabar, Tigran Hayrapetyan

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Abstract

Generally described, embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to sort and/or filter information contained in a summary table based on related information that may not be included in the summary table. According to one aspect, a computer-readable medium having computer executable components for filtering or sorting information displayed in a summary table is provided. Included in the computer executable medium is a category receipt and identification component configured to receive selections of categories and identify related categories contained in a dataset represented by the summary table. Also included in the computer-readable medium is a filtering component and a sorting component, each configured to control the structure and criteria upon which information contained in a category displayed in the data summary table may be filtered or sorted.

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Dependent claims

A method for filtering data, the method comprising:

performing a calculation utilizing selected data of a dataset;
generating a spreadsheet summary table based on the calculation that utilized the selected data of the dataset wherein the spreadsheet summary table displays a select group of categories of information generated from the dataset;
displaying the spreadsheet summary table for analyzing the selected data of the dataset;
receiving a selection of a displayed category of information from the spreadsheet summary table;
in response to receiving the selection of the displayed category of information from the spreadsheet summary table, identifying at least one related category not included in the spreadsheet summary table but contained within the dataset and related to the selected displayed category for filtering the information of the spreadsheet summary table;
receiving a selection of the at least one related category for filtering the information of the spreadsheet summary table;
in response to receiving the selection of the at least one related category, filtering the information of the spreadsheet summary table such that the information of the spreadsheet summary table is manipulated based on the dataset rather than on the information provided in the spreadsheet summary table;
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displaying a filtered spreadsheet summary table.

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Facts

Application: 13/206,710Filed 10 Aug 2011 · continuation
Priority: 25 Jan 2006
Published: US 2011/0295871 A11 Dec 2011
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 16/9538
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: presentation of query results
G06F 16/20
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of structured data, e.g. relational data
G06F 16/26
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: visual data mining; Browsing structured data
G06F 16/9035
Querying: filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles

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Application11/339,037Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Jan 2006
US 2011/0295871 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Dec 2011
US 8,005,873 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2007/0174245 A1Published application
US 10,311,080 B2This patent

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