Microsoft patents faster way to feed documents into AI systems
Microsoft describes a method for uploading documents to an AI system that processes the text while it is still being uploaded. Instead of waiting for the file to finish downloading, the system reads the content immediately to find key information and creates a map of where that information is located.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for ingesting content in an artificial intelligence system are described. A request for priority ingestion of content comprising a set of documents is received. The request for priority ingestion is indicated to a document upload queue. The documents are uploaded to the document upload queue while concurrently parsing the documents to identify semantic content within the document. The semantic content is then analyzed to generate and store indices of the document that indicate locations within the documents of the semantic content. The documents and the indices are then stored within a shared data access system.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computerized system comprising: at least one computer processor; and computer memory storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the at least one computer processor, cause the at least one computer processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: receiving a request for priority ingestion of content comprising a set of one or more documents; indicating, to a document upload queue, to prioritize the parsing of the set of documents; receiving, at the document upload queue, a document of the set of documents; concurrently parsing the document, as it is received, to identify semantic content within the document, based on the request; processing the identified semantic content to generate an index of the document that indicates locations within the document of the identified semantic content; and providing the document and the index of the document to a shared data access system.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- SEMANTIC CONTENT INGESTION IN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260288769A1
- Application number
- 19083160
- Filed
- Mar 18, 2025
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 13
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 16/31 Physics & computingG06F 9/4881 Physics & computingG06F 9/5038 Physics & computingG06F 40/205 Physics & computingG06F 40/30 Physics & computingG06F 2209/5021 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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