Patent ID: 7971134

Claim:
A method for filling empty cells of a range of cells in a multi-dimensional spreadsheet comprising a plurality of cells identified by a cell address along each dimension of the spreadsheet, said method comprising the steps of: selecting the range of cells, said range comprising a plurality of sample cells and one or a plurality of empty cells, wherein prior to said selecting each sample cell contains a sample value and an empty cell contains no value or a value not considered as a sample value; the content y i of each sample cell and each empty cell being associated with a particular value x i of a variable x; after said selecting, ordering the sample cells and the empty cells according to the values x i associated with the content of said cells; after said ordering, processing the empty cells comprising, for each empty cell, the steps of: identifying the value x i associated with the content of the empty cell; selecting one or a plurality of previous sample cells with respect to the empty cell; selecting one or a plurality of next sample cells with respect to the empty cell; computing the value y i of the empty cell according to the values y previous contained in the selected one or plurality of previous sample cells, and the values y next contained in the selected one or plurality of next sample cells; filling the empty cell with said computed value y i ; and after said processing the empty cells, displaying the spreadsheet via a graphical user interface (GUI).