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Microsoft patents mobile tool that turns document parts into new files

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Microsoft describes a system that uses machine learning to break down documents on a mobile device into separate parts like images or text. It highlights these parts so users can select them and automatically create new presentation or word processing files from the chosen elements.

Why it mattersIt could make it easier for people to quickly repurpose content from one document into another without manually copying and pasting.

In the filing’s own words

A method may include presenting content of an electronic document on a mobile computing device within a mobile version of a computing application; classifying, using a set of machine learning models, by the mobile computing device, the content into a plurality of components; after the classifying, highlighting the plurality of components within the mobile version of the computing application; receiving a user input selecting a component of the plurality of components; and adding, by the mobile computing device, the component to a component data store with a type of the component, the type of the component based on output of the set of machine learning models.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: presenting content of an electronic document on a mobile computing device within a mobile version of a computing application; classifying, using a first set of machine learning models, by the mobile computing device, the content into a plurality of components; generating, at the mobile computing device, metadata based on the classifying the content into the plurality of components; transmitting the metadata to a server having a second set of machine learning models, results of the server taking precedence over the results of the mobile computing device in the metadata; after the classifying, highlighting the plurality of components within the mobile version of the computing application; receiving, from the server, a second classifying from the second set of machine learning models of the presented content into a second plurality of components; updating the highlighting based on the second classifying; surfacing, within the mobile version of the computing application, an intelligent-copy element that is selectable by a user; receiving a user selection of the intelligent-copy element; in response to the selection, presenting on the mobile version of the computing application an overlay slide-up interface that includes selectable options to create a presentation document or a word processing document using one or more selected components; receiving a user selection of one of the selectable options; receiving a user input selecting a component of the second plurality of components; automatically generating, on the mobile computing device and without further user input, a new document of the selected presentation document or word processing document that is pre-populated with the selected component as an object having a type corresponding to the component as classified by the second set of machine learning models; and adding, by the mobile computing device, the component to a component data store with a type of the component, the type of the component based on an output of the second set of machine learning models.

Facts

Company
Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title
Cross-application componentized document generation
Patent number
US12762191B2
Application number
17836311
Filed
Jun 9, 2022
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
7
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 16/93 Physics & computingG06N 20/00 Physics & computingG06V 30/412 Physics & computingG06V 30/413 Physics & computing

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