Disney patents AI characters that remember your personal stories
This filing describes a system where an AI character asks users to share memories and uses machine learning to extract key details from those stories. It compares these details to existing records to see if the memory is new, saving it if it is, which allows the character to build a long-term understanding of the user's experiences.
In the filing’s own words
There is provided a method including eliciting, via an artificial intelligence interactive character (AIIC), a reminiscence from a user, predicting, using a trained machine learning (ML) model, at least one user memory feature from the reminiscence, computing, for each memory node of the plurality of memory nodes, a bond factor between the predicted at least one user memory feature and the one or more memory features stored in the memory node to provide a plurality of bond factors, determining that none of the plurality of bond factors satisfies a threshold, and in response to determining that none of the plurality of bond factors satisfies the threshold: updating the memory data structure by inserting a new memory node storing the predicted at least one user memory feature in the memory data structure; and generating, using the updated memory data structure, an interactive communication for execution by the AIIC.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A system comprising: a computing platform comprising a hardware processor and a system memory; the system memory storing software code and a memory data structure comprising a plurality of memory nodes, each memory node of the plurality of memory nodes storing one or more memory features for an artificial intelligence interactive character (AIIC); and the hardware processor configured to execute the software code to: elicit, via the AIIC, a reminiscence from a user; predict, using a trained machine learning (ML) model, at least one user memory feature from the reminiscence; compute, for each memory node of the plurality of memory nodes, a bond factor between the predicted at least one user memory feature and the one or more memory features stored in the memory node to provide a plurality of bond factors; determine that none of the plurality of bond factors satisfies a threshold; and in response to determining that none of the plurality of bond factors satisfies the threshold: update the memory data structure by inserting a new memory node storing the predicted at least one user memory feature in the memory data structure; and generate, using the updated memory data structure, an interactive communication for execution by the AIIC.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Emotionally Responsive Artificial Intelligence Interactive Character
- Publication number
- US20260330257A1
- Application number
- 19724543
- Filed
- Jun 29, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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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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