Patent ID: 11966690
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method operating a spreadsheet application, the method comprising:
identifying a formula in a cell of a spreadsheet, wherein the formula includes a name of a function executed by the spreadsheet application and an argument of the function, wherein the name of the function immediately follows an equals sign in the formula and comprises PY;
identifying a Python statement in the argument of the function, wherein the Python statement comprises a reference to a portion of the spreadsheet;
while executing the function, sending a request for an external resource to process cell values from the portion of the spreadsheet referenced by the Python statement;
while executing the function, receiving a response to the request comprising a representation of an object generated by the external resource when processing the cell values; and
updating the spreadsheet based on the representation of the object.