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US 2008/0077602 A1Published application
Database access computer language
AssigneeWeatherwise USA, LLC
InventorsRand Warsaw, Andrew J. Meyer, Vijay Parmar
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Abstract
An operating system independent computer language to enable non-technical users to manipulate data from within large pre-existing files or databases with limited involvement of programmers. This language can also be used to distribute the processing for such file manipulations across any group of networked computers.
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An operating system independent computer language presenting results as a spreadsheet comprising:
- a library of at least one function used to access and manipulate an existing file of stored data;
- a visual front end emulating a spreadsheet from which an end-user enters a command, which can include a function;
- an internal calculation engine which is called from the visual front end to interpret or real-time compile and execute the command;
- a string parser used by the internal calculation engine to parse the command from the visual front end into at least one function call;
- and
- a result from the internal calculation.
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An operating system independent method of allowing a user with little or no programming knowledge to perform complex operations on a database or other text file comprising:
- one or more functions being input into a library, such functions to include links to one or more existing files of stored data;
- an end user creating a sequential set of one or more commands, including the functions, from within a visual front end which presents results as a spreadsheet, said commands to access or manipulate data from the one or more existing files of stored data;
- interpreting the commands using an internal calculation engine combined with a string parser;
- running the commands on data from the one or more files of stored data;
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- returning a set of results to the end user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.