In 2025, Hal-AI filed this memory and context framework with the USPTO. In plain terms, it gives an agent two kinds of memory and a sense of when to use each: short-term memory for what is happening right now, in this conversation, and long-term memory for what is known about that customer and about the company over time.
On top of that sits retrieval. Storing everything is easy; bringing back only the context that matters for the current turn — without flooding the agent's reasoning with history it does not need — is the hard part. And then task continuity: knowing what has been done, what is still open and what no longer makes sense to do, including across conversations separated by days.
That is why it is ours alone to offer. It is the line between an agent and an automation: an automation starts over at every message, while an agent with memory keeps the thread, picks the task back up where it stopped and stops asking for what it already has.
Companies in logistics, aviation, healthcare and banking already run the framework in production.