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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Benjamin Goth Zorn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Carina Suzana Negreanu, Cambridge, GB;
Advait Sarkar, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Donald Gordon, Cambridge, GB;
John Herbert Martin Williams, Sheffield, GB;
Xieyang Liu, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Neil Blunt Toronto, Cambridge, GB;
Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Oxford, GB;
Brian Paul Slininger, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The automated generation of a natural language explanation of what code does. The code is structured to perform tasks because the code itself semantically specifies that those tasks are to be performed. A task-centric representation of the code is automatically generated that includes a task representation of each of some or all of the tasks to be performed as specified by the code. Natural language utterances are then automatically generated by generating a corresponding natural language utterance that semantically describes in natural language the corresponding task represented by the corresponding task representation. Controls are rendered for each natural language utterance that each permit a user to edit the corresponding natural language utterance. After editing, the code itself may be automatically modified or regenerated to reflect the changed natural language utterances.