Microsoft patents system to offload AI tasks from your device to the cloud
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that automatically moves AI tasks from a user's device to cloud servers when needed. This allows devices without powerful AI chips to still run AI features by sending the work to remote computers and bringing the results back.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing hybrid compute management using a hybrid compute management engine are described. Hybrid compute management refers to the dynamic orchestration of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads from a remote client to an AI workload cloud-based compute resource to optimize performance and resource utilization. The hybrid compute management engine enables AI-powered features on the remote client by dynamically offloading inferencing workloads to the AI workload cloud-based compute resource in an external compute environment while maintaining a seamless user experience. A hybrid compute framework associated with the hybrid compute management engine operates to redirect AI workloads from the remote client to the AI workload cloud-based compute resource, ensuring that these AI-powered feature associated with the remote client available even in the absence of dedicated AI hardware. An AI processing orchestrator directs workloads from a remote client to the cloud-based compute resource based on policy-driven execution rules.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computerized system comprising: one or more computer processors; and computer memory storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations, the operations comprising: accessing, at an artificial intelligence (AI) processing orchestrator, an AI workload request associated with a remote client; based on an AI workload management policy, determining to offload processing of the AI workload request to a cloud-based AI workload compute resource; communicating the AI workload request to the cloud-based AI workload compute resource to cause execution of the AI workload request; in response to communicating the AI workload request, receiving AI workload results for the AI workload request; and communicating the AI workload results to cause display of the AI workload results on an interface associated with the remote client.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- HYBRID COMPUTE MANAGEMENT ENGINE IN A CLOUD ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260300033A1
- Application number
- 19094538
- Filed
- Mar 28, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 10
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 9/5083 Physics & computingG06F 9/5033 Physics & computingG06F 9/5038 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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