Microsoft patents tool that auto-draws links between data tables
This filing describes a system that uses machine learning to predict how different data tables in a database are related. It automatically creates a visual map, or graph, where dots represent the tables and lines show the predicted connections between them.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that automatically predict a business intelligence model for tables of data provided as input. The methods and systems automatically generate a graph representing the business intelligence model and provide the graph as output. The graph provides a visual representation of the business intelligence model with nodes of the graph representing each input table and edges of the graph representing weighted edges joining pairs of tables together.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method, comprising: accessing existing business intelligence models; automatically extracting tables used in creating the existing business intelligence models and ground truth information for the existing business intelligence models; providing the tables and the ground truth information as input to a machine learning model; and training the machine learning model using the tables and the ground truth information to predict connections between pairs of tables and to output a graph with nodes of the graph representing each input table of the tables and edges of the graph representing the connections between pairs of tables.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- AUTOMATICALLY BUILDING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MODELS
- Publication number
- US20260260200A1
- Application number
- 19650643
- Filed
- Apr 17, 2026
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06Q 10/067 Physics & computingG06F 16/212 Physics & computingG06F 16/24544 Physics & computingG06F 16/2465 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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