Microsoft patents AI helper that runs brainstorming sessions in meetings
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that automatically starts a brainstorming session during an online meeting when specific conditions are met. It uses a language model to pick a template, create an agenda, and guide the discussion to collect ideas from participants.
In the filing’s own words
A data processing system implements detecting an occurrence of a trigger condition during an online meeting among a plurality of client devices associated with participants of the session, the occurrence of the trigger condition indicating that an ideation session for collecting ideas from the participants should be initiated; selecting an ideation session template based on meeting information associated with the online meeting, each ideation session template comprising a natural language prompt template that includes instructions to a language model to generate an agenda for a specific type of ideation session and to conduct the ideation session according to the agenda; constructing a prompt based on the natural language prompt template of the ideation session template; and providing the prompt as an input to the language model to cause the language model to generate the agenda for the ideation session and conduct the ideation session according to the agenda.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A data processing system comprising: a processor; and a memory storing executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor alone or in combination with other processors to perform operations of: detecting an occurrence of a trigger condition during an online meeting among a plurality of client devices associated with participants of the online meeting, the occurrence of the trigger condition indicating that an ideation session for collecting ideas from the participants should be initiated; selecting an ideation session template from among a plurality of ideation session templates based on meeting information associated with the online meeting, each ideation session template comprising a natural language prompt template that includes instructions to a language model to generate an agenda for a specific type of ideation session and to conduct the ideation session according to the agenda; constructing a prompt based on the natural language prompt template of the ideation session template that was selected; providing the prompt as an input to the language model to cause the language model to generate the agenda for the ideation session; and automatically conducting the ideation session according to the agenda.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN LEADING AND TEMPLATIZING OF IDEATION SESSION
- Publication number
- US20260291766A1
- Application number
- 19693302
- Filed
- May 29, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 12/1822 Electricity & electronicsG06F 40/30 Physics & computingG06T 13/40 Physics & computingH04N 7/157 Electricity & electronicsMore 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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