Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason Hogg

Joshy Joseph

Gregory Darrell Fee

Blair Brewster Dillaway

Moritz Y Becker

Jason Forrest Mackay

John Michael Leen

William Lee Labor, Jr

Alejandro Jose Miguel

A natural language query is received from an operator of a telecommunications network. A metadata request is computed from the natural language query. The metadata request is sent to a repository of metadata, the metadata describing telemetry data of the telecommunications network, the telemetry data stored in a relational database. Metadata is received from the metadata repository in response to the metadata request. Using the received metadata and a language model a relational database query is computed and the relational database is queried. A response is received from the relational database, triggering an action.

Telecommunications network management

A product guidance system is described herein that provides consistent methods and processes to aggregate product guidance from different online (and potentially local) sources, to ensure that the guidance aggregation is done with proper quality criteria (e.g., content/author reputation), to define how guidance is aggregated and presented appropriately for the context (e.g., a novice user may see different UI experience and different content than an advanced user), and to specify how the guidance is delivered within the product surface itself. The system defines a consistent information asset type meta-model, applies a semantic approach and algorithms to aggregate guidance content from varying sources and deliver through consistent interfaces, and provides an asset and user interface composition model to present the retrieved information following flexible categorization and navigation schemes. Thus, the product guidance system helps product teams deliver the right information, within the right context, and within the product surface.

Presentation of multiple sources of application guidance information

The subject disclosure is directed towards generating an intermediary (e.g., declarative) model based upon reflecting on and interpreting command line applications or the like, to represent a default user interface and default code transformation process. The intermediary model is modifiable to provide a customized output program. The models may be persisted, edited and otherwise modified to perform a management task, for example.

Executable guidance experiences based on implicitly generated guidance models

Software tools assist an access-policy analyst or creator to debug and/or author access policies. An access request contains a query that evaluates to either true or false depending on whether access is to be allowed. Abduction may be used to generate assumptions that, if true, would cause the access request to be true. The tool may perform analysis on the generated assumptions, such as: comparing the assumptions with tokens to detect errors in the tokens or to suggest changes to the tokens that would cause the query to be satisfied, or comparing the assumptions to a meta-policy. The tool may allow an analysis, policy author, or other person to interactively walk through assumptions in order to see the implications of the access policy.

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