Productivity File Conversion for AI Model Ingestion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current AI language models struggle to effectively process input from productivity applications due to formatting issues, leading to confusion and inability to produce useful results, especially when non-text content or proprietary file formats are involved.

Innovation Solution

A conversion service is employed to reformat productivity application files into a compatible format using an API, incorporating features like language detection, translation, PII scrubbing, and data subsampling to prepare files for AI language models, ensuring scalability and security.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If productivity application files are submitted directly to AI language models, then the system is simple and fast, but the AI model cannot process proprietary formats and non-text content effectively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to process different file formatsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A conversion service is introduced as an intermediary component between the file submission interface and the AI language model. This service receives productivity application files, converts them to formats compatible with the AI model (such as text or JSON), and then submits the converted content to the model. This resolves the contradiction by enabling format versatility through the intermediary converter while keeping the main AI processing system simple and unchanged.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is segmented into distinct functional components: a file reception interface, a conversion service that handles format transformation, and the AI language model for processing. By segmenting the system this way, the patent enables support for multiple file formats without complicating the core AI model, as each component has a specific, well-defined function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If files are converted to AI-compatible formats, then the AI model can process various file types effectively, but the conversion process adds time and complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefile processing capabilityVSAvoidconversion time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The conversion service performs the format conversion as a preliminary action before the AI model receives the file. By completing the conversion step in advance, the system ensures that the AI model always receives data in the correct format, ready for immediate processing. This preliminary conversion enables the system to handle various file types effectively while minimizing delays, as the conversion is done once during submission rather than during processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If the conversion service processes all file content, then comprehensive data is provided to the AI model, but security risks from unprocessed data increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata completenessVSAvoidsecurity risks
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The conversion service extracts and processes only the relevant content from productivity application files, separating useful data from potentially harmful elements. By taking out and filtering the necessary information while removing or sanitizing sensitive data (such as personally identifiable information), the system provides comprehensive but safe data to the AI model, resolving the contradiction between completeness and security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12566930B2Conditioning of productivity application file content for ingestion by an artificial intelligence model
Publication Date: 2026.03.03 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A data processing system for conditioning productivity application file content for ingestion by an artificial intelligence (AI) language model includes a server system hosting a conversion service, the server system comprising processing and memory resources; an Application Programming Interface (API) for the conversion service to receive productivity application files at any scale; and a format converter of the conversion service, the format converter converting a productivity application file to a format compatible with the AI language model to enable the AI language model to operate on the file content based on a user instruction submitted with the file content as output by the format converter.