Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for populating a table having null values using a predictive query interface
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Application No.: US14992925Application Date: 2016-01-11
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Publication No.: US09753962B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Cap Christian Petschulat , Eric Michael Jonas
- Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
- Current Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Elliott, Ostrander & Preston, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06Q30/02 ; G06F3/0484 ; G06F17/24 ; G06N7/00 ; G06N99/00

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for populating a table having null values using a predictive query interface including means for receiving a tabular dataset from a user as input, the tabular dataset having data values organized as columns and rows; identifying a plurality of null values within the tabular dataset, the null values being dispersed across multiple rows and multiple columns of the tabular dataset; generating indices from the tabular dataset of columns and rows, the indices representing probabilistic relationships between the rows and the columns of the tabular dataset; displaying the tabular dataset as output to the user, the displayed output including the data values depicted as known values and the null values depicted as unknown values; receiving input from the user to populate at least a portion of the unknown values within the displayed tabular dataset with predicted values; querying the indices for the predicted values; and displaying the predicted values as updated output to the user. Other related embodiments are further disclosed.
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