Method and system for verifying and storing documents during a program failure

This invention relates to software program modules. More particularly, this invention relates to a method and system for verifying and storing documents during a failure in a spreadsheet application program. Method and system for verifying and storing documents during a failure in a program module....

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Main Authors Snyder, Eric, Larsson, Jeff, Coffen, Bob, Fischer, Kevin, Slepak, Aleksandr, Niemisto, Juha
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 09.11.2004
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Summary:This invention relates to software program modules. More particularly, this invention relates to a method and system for verifying and storing documents during a failure in a spreadsheet application program. Method and system for verifying and storing documents during a failure in a program module. Once a failure is detected in the program module, control passes to an exception handler that determines whether the open files have been modified. If so, a crash handler is executed, which verifies and stores the documents by detecting and repairing any discovered corruption. The program module is then terminated and restarted. Upon restarting the program module, the repaired document is opened and displayed to the user with a list of repairs.