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

Claim 14:
15. One or more computer readable storage media having a spreadsheet application comprising program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, direct a computing apparatus to at least:
identify a format of a first cell and a second cell in a spreadsheet hosted by the spreadsheet application, wherein the format comprises multiple data points;
receive 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 apparatus, 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;
receive, from the relay service, multiple values corresponding to the multiple data points of the first cell input by the second user via a user interface to the second application and returned by the second application via the relay service to the spreadsheet application;
store 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 a user interface of the computing apparatus;
receive a state change to at least one of multiple data points of the second cell input by the user via the user interface to the spreadsheet application; and
send 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.