Embedded Attributes for Generative AI Behavior Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current approaches to steering generative AI behaviors are challenging due to the sensitivity of prompts, requiring users and developers to write lengthy custom prompts to capture context, which is inefficient and difficult to customize for specific content or applications.

Innovation Solution

An AI guidance system that generates or modifies prompts based on embedded attributes associated with applications, documents, and interfaces, providing additional instructions to generative AI systems, allowing for finer control over their behaviors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users write lengthy custom prompts to capture context, then the accuracy and relevance of generative AI outputs is improved, but the effort and time required increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy and relevance of outputsVSAvoideffort and time to write prompts
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by embedding attributes (such as context, formatting requirements, and constraints) directly into applications, documents, and interfaces during their creation. This allows the generative AI system to automatically retrieve and utilize these pre-prepared attributes without requiring users to manually craft lengthy prompts each time, thus improving output accuracy while reducing user effort and time investment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If users write lengthy custom prompts to capture context, then the accuracy and relevance of generative AI outputs is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy and relevance of outputsVSAvoidease of customizing for specific content
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service by enabling applications, documents, and interfaces to automatically provide their own contextual attributes to the generative AI system. Instead of requiring users to manually extract and format context information into prompts, the system automatically retrieves embedded attributes from the relevant sources, making the process easier while maintaining high accuracy and relevance of outputs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If embedded attributes are used to generate supplemental prompts, then the productivity of prompt creation is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprompt creation efficiencyVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the nested doll principle by embedding attributes within applications, documents, and interfaces in a hierarchical structure. These embedded attributes contain contextual information that can be automatically extracted and used to generate supplemental prompts. This nested structure allows the system to efficiently retrieve relevant context without requiring complex external processing systems, thus improving productivity while managing complexity through organized, self-contained attribute storage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS12423338B2Embedded attributes for modifying behaviors of generative AI systems
Publication Date: 2025.09.23 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for directing behavior of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system are provided. In particular, a computing device may obtain an input prompt associated with a requested task for one or more generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, obtain one or more attributes based on the input prompt, modify the input prompt based on the one or more embedded attributes, and provide the modified input prompt to the one or more generative AI systems.