US 12,260,169 B2
Using lightweight references to present a worksheet
Massimo D. Siboldi, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jason D. Frantz, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by SIGMA COMPUTING, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/874,447.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/852,082, filed on May 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0372210 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 40/18 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 40/18 (2020.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using lightweight references to present a worksheet, the method comprising:
receiving, from a first user account, a request for a worksheet presenting a data set from a database, wherein the worksheet was generated by a second user account;
determining that the request was not generated from the second user account by determining that user account information associated with the request differs from user account information associated with ownership of the worksheet; and
in response to the determination that the request is not from the second user account, presenting the worksheet in a view mode,
wherein permissions in the view mode prevent viewing hidden columns in the worksheet and changing an existing filter in the worksheet, and
wherein the permissions in the view mode allow adding filters to the worksheet and adding columns to the worksheet.