Microsoft patents tool that turns text prompts into network changes
This patent describes a system that takes a user's text description of a network task and uses a large language model to write the necessary code. The system tests this code in a safe, isolated environment before showing the user the potential changes to the network.
In the filing’s own words
Network management automation includes a graph analysis and manipulation tool configured to receive a natural language prompt relating to a network management activity. The graph analysis and manipulation tool is also configured to access a graph resource and to generate code that addresses the network management activity as a graph manipulation task.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A device-implemented method comprising: receiving a natural language prompt comprising a graph manipulation task relating to a network; generating an updated prompt for a large language model (LLM) from the natural language prompt and information from a graph library without data from the network; receiving code from the LLM that addresses the graph manipulation task; testing performance of the code on a graph of the network in a sandbox to generate an updated network graph; and, presenting the network graph and the updated network graph in a manner that includes a user selectable option to execute the code on the network or to maintain the network and discard the code.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- Graph analysis and manipulation
- Patent number
- US12748576B2
- Application number
- 18395321
- Filed
- Dec 22, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 8/35 Physics & computingG06F 16/9024 Physics & computingG06F 8/436 Physics & computingG06F 8/4441 Physics & computingG06F 8/65 Physics & computingG06F 16/24522 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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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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