Disney patents search system that breaks complex questions into parts
Disney has filed a patent for a search method that splits complex user questions into smaller pieces. It uses AI to figure out what each piece means and then searches both a structured database and a flexible text database to find the answer.
In the filing’s own words
Techniques for generating a result for a search query. These techniques include identifying a complex search query including more than two parameters, dividing the complex search query into one or more components, and determining an intent for each of the one or more components using machine learning (ML), the ML including at least one of: a large language model (LLM) or natural language processing (NLP) neural network. The techniques further include generating a result for the search query based on routing each component through a pipeline using the respective intent, the pipeline including both a query against a graph database and a search against a vector database.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method, comprising: identifying a complex search query comprising more than two parameters; dividing the complex search query into one or more components; determining a respective intent for each respective component of the one or more components by processing the respective component using machine learning (ML), the ML comprising at least one of: a large language model (LLM) or natural language processing (NLP) neural network; and generating a result for the complex search query, comprising routing each respective component of the one or more components through a pipeline based on the respective intents, comprising, for a first component of the one or more components having a first intent: processing the first component using a current step of the pipeline; generating a graph database query based at least in part on the current step in the pipeline and the first intent; identifying, for the first component, a next step in the pipeline based on executing the graph database query against a knowledge graph; and processing the first component using the next step.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- DOMAIN SPECIFIC INTELLIGENCE USING NATURAL LANGUAGE
- Publication number
- US20260300277A1
- Application number
- 19707956
- Filed
- Jun 15, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 16/243 Physics & computingG06F 16/2468 Physics & computingG06F 16/9024 Physics & computingMore from Disney 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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