Microsoft patents smart summaries that pick the right news for you
Microsoft describes a system that automatically creates short, personalized news briefs by scoring different types of content based on how fresh and relevant they are to you. It picks the most important items for a headline and fills the rest of the message with a diverse mix of topics, ensuring the update is short and easy to read. The system also generates these summaries during quiet hours to save on server power.
In the filing’s own words
Technology is disclosed to programmatically generate a briefing message that is relevant, optimally-sized, and easy for a user to consume. The briefing message is generated with target briefing items organized based on a user-specific headline and user-specific body of the briefing message. The briefing message is generated based on a determination, from candidate briefing items and corresponding scores, of at least one target briefing item to be included in the body and the headline of a briefing message. In this manner, such technologies improve the user's experience and reduce computational resources and bandwidth associated with a larger volume of content being generated and communicated to a user for presentation, especially during times of high user computer traffic. The briefing content items are generated during times of the day with lower user activity and less computational resource consumption.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer system, comprising: at least one processor; and computer memory having computer-readable instructions embodied thereon, that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform operations comprising: accessing (1) a user account comprising user-specific features and (2) user-content data for potential inclusion in a briefing message; from the user-content data, determining a plurality of candidate briefing items; for each candidate briefing item of the plurality of candidate briefing items, determining a corresponding item type based on a classification of the candidate briefing item; based at least on the user-specific features, determining at least one corresponding score for each candidate briefing item of the plurality of candidate briefing items, the at least one corresponding score determined based on freshness, relatedness to the user, uniqueness to the user, user engagement, or organizational input; from the plurality of candidate briefing items, determining to include a plurality of diverse target briefing items in the briefing message by selecting candidate briefing items having different corresponding item types and having corresponding scores above a threshold score; determining, from the plurality of diverse target briefing items, at least one target briefing item to be indicated in a headline of the briefing message based on the at least one corresponding score; determining a format of the headline and a format of the body of the briefing message; and generating, based on the format of the headline and the format of the body of the briefing message, the briefing message comprising the at least one target briefing item indicated in the headline of the briefing message and the plurality of diverse target briefing items in the body of the briefing message.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC)
- Official title
- Personalized and optimally-sized briefing messages
- Patent number
- US12769934B2
- Application number
- 18193247
- Filed
- Mar 30, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 40/186 Physics & computingG06F 40/103 Physics & computingG06F 40/279 Physics & computingG06F 40/40 Physics & computingG06V 10/40 Physics & computingG06Q 10/10 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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