Microsoft patents guided prompt builder for AI apps
This patent describes a user interface that helps people write instructions for large language models. It displays clickable options that add specific details to a prompt, using the AI itself to suggest those details based on what has already been typed.
In the filing’s own words
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for guided prompt creation via foundation model integrations in application environments. In an implementation, a computing device displays a user interface of an application. Within the user interface, the computing device displays modifier key components for modifying a prompt to be submitted to a foundation model. The selection of any one of the modifier key components adds a corresponding modifier key to the prompt. The computing device obtains modifier values from the foundation model based on the prompt. The computing device also displays modifier value components in the user interface; the selection of a modifier value component adds a corresponding modifier value to the prompt. The computing device submits the prompt to the foundation model and displays a reply from the foundation model in the user interface.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for generating prompts on a computing device, the method comprising: on the computing device: displaying, in a user interface to an application, modifier key components for modifying a prompt to be submitted to a foundation model, wherein a selection of any one of the modifier key components adds a corresponding modifier key to the prompt; submitting, to the foundation model, a request for modifier values, wherein the request comprises contextual information from the prompt in a current incomplete state, and wherein the prompt comprises a modifier key corresponding to a selected one of the modifier key components; receiving, from the foundation model, the modifier values generated by the foundation model based on the request, wherein the modifier values complete the modifier key to form an instruction for directing the foundation model in generating content; displaying, in the user interface, modifier value components for adding the modifier values to the prompt, wherein a selection of any one of the modifier value components adds a corresponding one of the modifier values to the prompt; submitting the prompt, including the modifier key and the corresponding one of the modifier values, to the foundation model; and displaying a reply from the foundation model in the user interface.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- Guided prompt creation via foundation model integrations in application environments
- Patent number
- US12762327B2
- Application number
- 18515645
- Filed
- Nov 21, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 40/166 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computingG06F 3/0484 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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