Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Benjamin Recht

Sarah J Rich

Erica R Greene

Brian A Whitman

A systematic method of introducing obfuscating 'organic' noise to a user's content engagement history leverages a recommender system by creating a public history on a client device which is a superset of the user's true engagement history. The method builds up the superset history over time through a client's interaction with the recommender system by simulating organic growth in a user's actual engagement history. The organic superset prevents an adversary with access to the underlying recommendation model from readily distinguishing between signal and noise in a user's query and obfuscates the user's engagement history with the recommender system.

Systems and methods to maintain user privacy while providing recommendations

Disclosed examples can relate to obtaining identifications of content (e.g., content recommendations) while keeping at least some interaction data locally private. For a given user and device, content items for which the user may have an affinity can be predicted based on the interactions of the user with other content items. Respective interaction data for respective content items can stay local to the user device by transforming the respective content items into content codes (e.g., determined based on a codebook generated by clustering perceptual values). The affinity for content codes can be transmitted to the server for use in determining identifications of content items to provide to the device.

Content identification with privacy and security

Methods and systems for recommending content to a client device operated by a user include receiving a set of ratings for each of a first set of content items by a user from a client device for use in a factor model. The set of ratings is not maintained in the server for longer than necessary to calculate a rating vector and/or to update a matrix factor defined by the rank of the factor model and a total number of content items eligible for ranking.

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Benjamin Recht