Patent ID: 9280532
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing access to a data object from within a spreadsheet included in a spreadsheet application, the method comprising: receiving a user input from a first cell of the spreadsheet via a service logic; transmitting the user input, from the service logic to an input receiving logic in a server, for evaluating the user input with a plurality of data objects in an object model, and returning a data object from the plurality of data objects; using a first computer, associating the data object with the first cell of the spreadsheet, wherein the data object has one or more parameters, and the first cell is identified by a first cell reference in a computer display device coupled to the first computer; receiving a first input for a second cell of the spreadsheet, wherein the first input includes a portion of an expression and includes the first cell reference identifying the first cell; in response to receiving the first input, retrieving the one or more parameters associated with the data object of the first cell as suggestions, and causing displaying the one or more suggested parameters in association with the second cell; receiving a second input indicating that a particular suggestion was selected from the one or more suggested parameters; associating the particular suggestion with the second cell in the portion of the expression; replacing the first cell reference specified in the expression in the second cell with a reference to the data object associated with the first cell; based on the expression comprising the reference to the data object and the particular suggestion, determining a value by querying a database at a second computer to obtain the value for the particular suggestion in relation to the data object and causing displaying the value in the second cell.