Business Objects Software Assigned Patent

Business Objects Software, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (9,311,371) developed by Mohan, Mayur Belur, Bangalore, India, Diwan, Saurabh, Curg, India, and Gargoum, Louay, DB Killiney, Ireland, Taiwan, for a “data cell cluster identification and table transformation.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Various embodiments may operate to access individual lines of information included in a file stored in an electronic storage medium, to detect the existence of data clusters in the file based on neighboring cell content in a horizontal direction, corresponding to the individual lines, and in a vertical direction, (orthogonal to the horizontal direction), to identify at least some of the data clusters as being associated with predefined table types, comprising vertical tables, horizontal tables, or cross tables, to merge some of the data clusters into section tables having common properties, and to transform the tables resulting from the merging activity, as well as remaining un-merged data clusters, into a single flat table. The stored file may comprise a spreadsheet file.“

The patent application was filed on April 25, 2013 (13/870,252).