Patent ID: 11893343
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method of operating a computing device comprising:
on the computing device, identifying a format of a first cell and a second cell in a spreadsheet hosted by a spreadsheet application, wherein the format comprises multiple data points;
on the computing device, receiving user input from a user via a user interface to the spreadsheet application, wherein the user input comprises a selection of an option to share, via a relay service remote with respect to the computing device, an instance of the first cell and an instance of the second cell with a second application of a type that differs from the spreadsheet application, wherein the second application resides on a second computing apparatus associated with a second user;
on the computing device, receiving, from the relay service, multiple values corresponding to the multiple data points of the first cell input by the second user via a second user interface to the second application and returned by the second application via the relay service to the spreadsheet application;
on the computing device, storing each value of the multiple values in text of the first cell as a separately referenceable value with respect to each other value of the multiple values;
display at least a portion of the text of the first cell such that at least one value of the multiple values is visible in the user interface of the computing device;
on the computing device, receiving a state change to at least one of the multiple data points of the second cell input by the user via the user interface to the spreadsheet application; and
on the computing device, sending the state change to the at least one of the multiple data points of the second cell, via the relay service, to the second application.