OpenAI patents AI that understands company-specific code names
OpenAI has filed a patent for a system that helps AI assistants understand terms with specific meanings inside a company. The technology ensures that when a user asks about a project using an internal code name, the AI interprets it correctly rather than using the word's general definition. It also checks user permissions to prevent the AI from sharing sensitive information with people who do not have access.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology is directed to generating output based on a context within an organization. For example, the present technology can use a generative response engine to provide responses to prompts based on meanings of terms that are specific to the organization or based on information included in content items of the organization. The present technology respects access privileges of the organization so that the generative response engine does not leak information within the organization to unauthorized members of the organization.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a generative response engine, a prompt from a user account referencing a term that is a code name within an organization and the term has a different meaning outside of the organization other than the code name, wherein the user account is associated with the organization and wherein the prompt includes a request for information associated with a project having the code name; generating, by the generative response engine, a response to the prompt, wherein the response reflects a code name meaning of the term; and providing, by a front end to the generative response engine, the response to the user account wherein the response reflects the code name meaning of the term.
Facts
- Company
- OpenAI (OpenAI OpCo, LLC)
- Official title
- GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE OUTPUTS BASED ON ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
- Publication number
- US20260278246A1
- Application number
- 19077974
- Filed
- Mar 12, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 40/157 Physics & computingG06F 21/629 Physics & computingMore from OpenAI in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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