Microsoft patents digital agents that watch meetings for you

Microsoft describes a system where software agents join communication sessions to monitor conversations on a user's behalf. These agents scan the shared information to find specific details relevant to the user and then present those key points back to them.

In the filing’s own words

One or more digital agents are instantiated to monitor to monitor one or more communication sessions on behalf of a user. Respective digital agents are configured to identify, in the information shared during respective communication sessions, respective one or more subsets of information including one or more items of information relevant to the user. The respective one or more subsets of information identified, by the respective one or more digital agents, are obtained from the one or more digital agents. At least some of the information in the respective subsets of information is presented to the user.

Facts

Company

Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)

Official title

DIGITAL AGENTS FOR PRESENCE IN COMMUNICATION SESSIONS

Publication number

US20260261533A1

Application number

19629347

Filed

Mar 26, 2026

Published

Sep 3, 2026

Inventors

1

Claims

21

Classified under

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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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