Data Engine Technologies LLC v. Google Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2016
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
August 2021
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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Applies 35 U.S.C. § 101
Relies on In re Burlington Coat Factory Securities Litigation · Gottschalk v. Benson · Diamond v. Chakrabarty · Oshiver v. Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey Bank
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“12. In an electronic spreadsheet system for storing and manipulating information, a computer-implemented method of representing a three-dimensional spreadsheet on a screen display, the method comprising: displaying on said screen display a first spreadsheet page from a plurality of spreadsheet pages, each of said spreadsheet pages comprising an array of information cells arranged in row and column format, at least some of said information cells storing user-supplied information and formulas operative on said user-supplied information, each of said information cells being uniquely identified by a spreadsheet page identifier, a column identifier, and a row identifier; while displaying said first spreadsheet page, displaying a row of spreadsheet page identifiers along one side of said first spreadsheet page, each said spreadsheet page identifier being displayed as an image of a notebook tab on said screen display and indicating a single respective spreadsheet page, wherein at least one spreadsheet page identifier of said displayed row of spreadsheet page identifiers comprises at least one user-settable identifying character; receiving user input for requesting display of a second spreadsheet page in response to selection with an input device of a spreadsheet page identifier for said second spreadsheet page; in response to said receiving user input step, displaying said second spreadsheet page on said screen display in a manner so as to obscure said first spreadsheet page from di”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. In an electronic spreadsheet system for modeling user-specified information in a data model comprising a plurality of information cells, a method for automatically tracking different versions of the data model, the method comprising: (a) specifying a base set of information cells for the system to track changes ; (b) creating a new version of the data model by modifying at least one information cell from the specified base set; and (c) automatically determining cells of the data model which have changed by comparing cells in the new version against corresponding ones in the base set. ** . In an electronic spreadsheet system, a method for storing different versions of a spreadsheet model, the method comprising: (a) maintaining a base version of the spreadsheet model as ordered information on a storage device; and (b) for each new version of the spreadsheet model: (i) determining portions of the new version which have changed when compared against the base version, and (ii) maintaining the new version by storing additional information for only those portions determined to have changed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to input of information in a (computerized) columnar pad, recognition of changes in later versions of the inputted information, and storage of information about the changes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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