Microsoft patents AI system that manages security rules from natural language
Microsoft describes a system that lets users ask questions about security rules in plain language. It matches these questions to stored templates, uses an AI model to generate specific instructions, and then runs code to apply those changes to the system's security settings.
In the filing’s own words
In various examples, input queries (e.g. open user queries) are used combination with predefined queries to perform security policy-related actions using a generative machine learning (GML) model or GML models. In one example, an input query relating to a security policy is matched with a predefined query stored in an instruction database. In some examples, the instruction database contains examples of structured configuration data, which in turn can be used by a GML model to configure a predetermined extractor code module to perform a specific policy-related action. In other examples, a security context relating to a security policy is used together with an input query and template query to generate a GML model query. In some examples, the two approaches are combined.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving an input query relating to a security policy; matching the input query with a predefined query stored in an instruction database; based on matching the input query with the predefined query, retrieving from the instruction database a predefined configuration instruction associated with the predefined query; inputting, to a generative machine learning (GML) model, a first model query based on the input query and the predefined configuration instruction; receiving from the GML model, in response to the first model query, a structured configuration output; executing a predetermined extractor code module on the security policy based on the structured configuration output, resulting in an extraction output; inputting, to the GML model or a second GML model, a second model query based on the input query and the extraction output; receiving a response from the GML model or the second GML model, in response to the second model query; and based on the response, causing an action relating to the security policy to be performed.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- Security policy management
- Patent number
- US12739283B2
- Application number
- 18932544
- Filed
- Oct 30, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 12
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 63/20 Electricity & electronicsH04L 41/16 Electricity & electronicsH04L 41/22 Electricity & electronicsMore from Microsoft in Security & privacy
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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