Microsoft patents AI guide that suggests next steps for filling out forms
Microsoft describes a system that looks at information already entered into a digital record to predict what data is missing. It then uses AI to suggest specific actions or steps to help the user find and enter that missing information.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic record input system (ERIS) may detect historical entities in the electronic record, the historical entities corresponding to the context and corresponding to first input fields of the electronic record. The ERIS may identify a next input field of the electronic record based on the historical entities by executing a predictive model on the historical entities, wherein the next input field corresponds to a next entity in the context, the next input field is different from the first input fields. The ERIS may generate one or more suggested actions for guiding the collection of the next entity corresponding to the next input field by executing a generative artificial intelligence model on the next input field and the historical entities. The ERIS may present the one or more suggested actions using the user computing device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method of guiding collection of information for input into an electronic record via a user computing device, the information corresponding to a context, the computer-implemented method comprising: detecting historical entities in the electronic record, the historical entities corresponding to the context and corresponding to first input fields of the electronic record; identifying a next input field of the electronic record based on the historical entities by executing a predictive model on the historical entities, wherein the next input field corresponds to a next entity in the context, the next input field is different from the first input fields; generating one or more suggested actions for guiding the collection of the next entity corresponding to the next input field by executing a generative artificial intelligence model on the next input field and the historical entities; and presenting the one or more suggested actions using the user computing device.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- DYNAMIC AI-ASSISTED GUIDANCE FOR ELECTRONIC RECORD COMPLETION
- Publication number
- US20260330128A1
- Application number
- 19182106
- Filed
- Apr 17, 2025
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 40/174 Physics & computingG06F 40/279 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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