Query to an electronic form
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsNima Mirzad, Andrew Begun, Michael Palmer, Laurent Mollicone
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Abstract
Systems and/or methods that enable an electronic form to provide data external to the electronic form in response to a query while offline with respect to a data source from which the data originated are described. These systems and methods may also, in one embodiment, receive data from a data source that is capable of being inaccessible and associate that data with an electronic form, a user, and a query. These systems and methods may, in another embodiment, provide data in response to a query made by a user to an electronic form that was previously associated with the electronic form, the user, and the query.
Claims20
One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform acts comprising:
- receiving a query initiated through an electronic form, the query requesting data external to the electronic form;
- and
- providing, in response to the query, the data requested by the query while offline with respect to the data's original data source.
One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform acts comprising:
- receiving, in response to a query initiated by a user through an instance of an electronic form template, data from a data source external to the electronic form template that is capable of being inaccessible;
- storing the data from the data source;
- and
- associating the data with the electronic form template, the user, and the query.
One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform acts comprising:
- associating data received from a source external to an electronic form with the electronic form, the data used in responding to a first query initiated through a first instance of the electronic form and received while online with respect to the source for the data;
- and
- providing the data in response to a second query initiated through a second instance of the electronic form while offline with respect to the source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.