Patent ID: 11900133
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. One or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors in a computing device, direct the computing device to at least:
display a spreadsheet in a user interface;
pre-obtain metadata from a remote service that pre-identifies an unstructured table in the spreadsheet, wherein the metadata includes a range of cells belonging to the unstructured table in the spreadsheet, and wherein the unstructured table is not formatted as a table;
detect a user action in the spreadsheet after having pre-obtained the metadata;
identify an active cell associated with the user action;
determine, based on the range of cells identified in the pre-obtained metadata, that the active cell belongs to the unstructured table;
in response to determining that the active cell belongs to the unstructured table, display a suggestion component in the user interface;
receive a selection of the suggestion component; and
in response to the selection of the suggestion component, display a preview in the user interface of a pivot table for the unstructured table in the user interface.