Methods and systems to facilitate providing spreadsheet and database data to users via a social network

摘要

A spreadsheet application platform facilitates accessing a spreadsheet stored using a spreadsheet database at a server computer. The spreadsheet application platform includes a computer-implemented social network, and a publisher may use the social network to publish a spreadsheet so that other users of the social network may subscribe to and access the spreadsheet's data. Further, a subscribed user may generate other spreadsheets that reference the publisher's spreadsheet via the application platform. When a stored value for a cell of the publisher's spreadsheet is updated at the spreadsheet database, the application platform may generate update requests for one or more target spreadsheet cells that reference the updated cell. An update request may indicate that a target cell is to be updated, and the application platform may process a plurality of update requests in parallel to update the stored values for a corresponding plurality of spreadsheet cells.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a first update request for a second cell of a second spreadsheet from a second user that owns the second spreadsheet, the first update request indicating that the second cell of the second spreadsheet is to be updated, the second cell including a reference to a first cell of a first spreadsheet, the first spreadsheet being owned by a first user, the second user not being the first user; based on the reference to the first cell, determining a stored value being stored on a server computer for the first cell; granting the second user access to read the first cell responsive to the second user subscribing to the first cell, the subscribing to the first cell by the second user including a fee; using at least one processor, computing a first updated value for the second cell of the second spreadsheet based on the stored value for the first cell; and providing, to a computing device, a query result that includes the stored value for the first cell.