Microsoft patents AI system that picks the right agents for each question
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that manages multiple AI agents to answer user questions. It uses a central orchestrator to rank which specific agents are relevant to a query and combines their answers into a single response.
In the filing’s own words
Example methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media provide an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant utilizing a plurality of agents to answer a query. A host application receives the query from a client. The host application applies the query to an orchestrator to select a subset of agents to answer the query, the orchestrator applying a relevance ranking algorithm to the query and an agent description set including a description of each agent and a description of a separator class. The orchestrator may dynamically select a number of the agents in the subset based on a ranking of the separator class, which is associated with a description of context outside of a domain of the plurality of artificial intelligence agents. The host application provides the query to each selected agent in the subset of agents. The host application aggregates responses from each selected agent into a response to the client.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An apparatus for answering a query with a plurality of artificial intelligence agents, comprising: one or more memories storing computer executable instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the apparatus to: receive the query from a client; apply the query to an orchestrator to select a subset of agents to answer the query, the orchestrator applying a relevance ranking algorithm to the query and an agent description set including a description of each agent and a description of a separator class having a description of context outside of a domain of the plurality of artificial intelligence agents; provide the query to each selected agent in the subset of agents; aggregate responses from each selected agent; and output the aggregated response to the client.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- AGENTIC META-ORCHESTRATOR FOR MULTI-TASK AI ASSISTANTS
- Publication number
- US20260300782A1
- Application number
- 19092853
- Filed
- Mar 27, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 12
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06N 5/043 Physics & computingG06N 5/01 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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