Intelligent table suggestion and conversion for text

US12340184B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Abhijith ASOK · Bellevue, US
• Courtney Sarah Cochrane · Cambridge, US
• Jenna HONG · Acton, US
• Yang He · Newton, US
• Lucas Anton Rosenblatt · Brooklyn, US
• Aleksandr Polyakov · Somerville, US
• Natalie Ann Mionis · Cambridge, US
• Amit Gupte · Pune, IN
• Anish Pimpley · Los Altos, US
• Sean Gormley T. Kelley · Boston, US
• Yiquan Xu · Watertown, US
• Ransom Lloyd Richardson · Acton, US
• Michael Adam Scarpati · Wellesley, US
• Benjamin Wilde · Quincy, US
• Jichen Yang · Walpole, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 11, 2021
• Grant date: Jun 24, 2025
• Expiry date: Aug 11, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N20/00
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The disclosed technology is generally directed to the conversion of text to tables. In one example of the technology, input text that includes at least three rows is received. A plurality of characteristics of the input text is determined. Each characteristic of the plurality of characteristics is associated with a uniformity between the rows of the input text. The plurality of characteristics includes at least one characteristic that is associated with a delimiter count. A determination is made as to whether the input text is suitable for conversion to table based on the plurality of characteristics. Upon determining that the input text is suitable for conversion to a table, a machine learning model is used to convert the input text into a table.