Nvidia claims the assistant that stores what the user told it and applies it in a later conversation, on a 2022 priority date

2026-09-24Filings

United States Patent Application Publication No. 2026/0288790 A1, Nvidia Corporation, "Query Response Generation," Application No. 19/689,724, a continuation of Application No. 17/674,704 filed February 17, 2022, published September 24, 2026

Claim 1 recites a processor comprising circuits that use one or more natural language processing models to determine an intent expressed in a first query to a conversational artificial intelligence platform, the intent indicating a request to store personalization data from that query in a data store associated with the user; use the models to determine the relevance of the stored personalization data to a second query; and generate a response to the second query using the personalization data on the basis of that relevance. Claims 11 and 16 are the method and the system. The dependent claims add inserting the personalization data into the second query before it is processed, searching a structured data store first and an unstructured store only when the structured store lacks the data, distinguishing a personalization query from other query types, invoking domain-specific agents according to the classification of the query, keeping interaction logs as unstructured text documents, and confirming to the user that the data was stored. No claim is limited to a model architecture, and the specification describes the models generically. The verbatim claim text could not be retrieved from the publication; the elements are paraphrased as reported by Justia and by the trade site Patentlyze.

What it changesThis is, in general terms, the memory feature that OpenAI added to ChatGPT in 2024 and that most assistant products now offer, and the application carries a February 17, 2022 priority date, which is before any of those products existed. As a published application it is prior art under Section 102(a)(2) of Title 35 of the United States Code as of that date against anyone who filed later on storing user preferences when the user expresses an intent to be remembered and retrieving them by relevance to a later query, so any company that filed on assistant memory after early 2022 should read it against its own claims. As paraphrased, claim 1 reads on a generic pipeline of storing and retrieving information, which is the kind of claim the Federal Circuit has held abstract since Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., so expect the examiner to push Nvidia toward the structured-then-unstructured fallback of claim 4 and watch where the allowed claim lands before treating it as a threat. The filing also shows the continuation practice an in-house program should copy: Nvidia kept a 2022 family pending and in 2026 filed claims drafted to a feature the market had since shipped, which is only possible if at least one continuation is kept open in every family that describes a platform capability.

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