ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,654, issued on March 4, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).
"Live editing a workbook with multiple clients" was invented by Jason D. Frantz (San Francisco), Nipurn Doshi (Redwood City, Calif.), Christopher Messer (San Francisco) and Neil F. Lugovoy (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Live editing a workbook with multiple clients including receiving, by a table manager, a request by a first client on a first client computing system to edit a workbook in an exploration mode that displays edits to the workbook without altering the workbook; receiving, by the table manager from the first client, an explora...