Microsoft patents AI that predicts form answers using your data
Microsoft describes a system that helps users fill out digital forms by predicting what text to enter. It gathers user information, checks permissions, and uses an AI model to suggest answers based on that data.
In the filing’s own words
Some embodiments assist a user in entering text or other data in a computer system by providing a predictive input mechanism for form filling. Some embodiments gather user context data, create a prompt containing at least part of the context data, submit the prompt to a predictor, get a response from the predictor, and provide a suggestion for a form field value which includes or is computationally derived from at least part of the predictor response. Some embodiments preprocess the context data to verify that the user has current permission to access the context data. Some embodiments postprocess the predictor response to enforce responsible prediction criteria, to validate against a user role, to validate against a rule, or a combination thereof. Some embodiments include multiple predictors. In some embodiments, a predictor includes a statistical model, and in some a predictor includes an artificial intelligence model.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of assisting a user in entering text in a computer system by providing a predictive input mechanism for form filling, comprising: gathering context data of the user; preprocessing some of the context data, the gathering or the preprocessing or both comprising verifying for at least a portion of the context data that the user has current permission to access said portion; integrating at least part of the preprocessed context data into a prompt; submitting the prompt to an artificial intelligence model, the prompt being free of any value for which the user lacked authorized access when the value was gathered during the gathering; getting a response from the artificial intelligence model; postprocessing the response; and utilizing some of the postprocessed response as a prediction of a field value of a field in a form.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- FORM FIELD VALUE PREDICTION
- Publication number
- US20260289096A1
- Application number
- 18588376
- Filed
- Feb 27, 2024
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 40/174 Physics & computingG06F 21/6227 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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