Apple Inc.

Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Julien F Freudiger

Ersin Uzun

Alejandro Enrique Brito

Shantanu Rane

Umesh Suresh Vaishampayan

Andrew H Vyrros

Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

Patrick L Coffman

Eric Lance Wilson

Jerrold Von Hauck

Robert William Mayor

Gaurav Kapoor

Stephen J Rhee

Deepak R Iyer

Thomas M Alsina

Marshall Bern

Edward T Schmidt

Vipul Ved Prakash

Jean-Pierre Ciudad

Guy Leslie Tribble

Astrid Yi

Todd R Fernandez

Christopher Daryl Soli

Matthew Elliot Shepherd

John Martin Hörnkvist

Ryan M Rogers

Behkish J Manzari

Farouk Belghoul

Yannick L Sierra

Sriram Hariharan

Brent Michael Ledvina

Vignesh Jagadeesh

Samuel David Post

Hervé Sibert

Raghunandan K Pai

Scott Lopatin

Langford M Wasada

Kyle C Brogle

Lun Cui

Abhishek Bhowmick

Thomas P Mensch

Tommy Rochette

Matthew H Gamble

James R Montgomerie

Erik C Neuenschwander

Eric Daniel Friedman

Siva Ganesh Movva

Christopher G Skogen

Samuel B Schaevitz

Jessica Aranda

Cody D Jorgensen

Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda

Anubhav Malhotra

Emmanuel Lalande

Adam M Driscoll

Munish K Poonia

Emiliano De Cristofaro

Vivek Rangarajan Sridhar

Doug Davidson

Cyrus Daboo

Christopher K Thomas

Andrey Pokrovskiy

Ron Huang

Katherine B Skinner

Hon Yuk Chan

John Wilander

Stanley N Hung

Glen S Low

Karan Misra

Brian D Pietsch

Sowmya Gopalan

Cindy M Barrett

Arnaud Legendre

Nahir A Khan

Steven Duplinsky

Jonathan R Schoenberg

Christina Selle

Tunc Ertan

Swadesh Bhattacharya

Ansh Shukla

Golam Babil Sarwar

Patrick W Demasco

Michael C Laster

Kyle Martin Sluder

John Duchi

Alexis Hugo Louis Durocher

Stephen Cosman

Guillaume Tartavel

Kalu Onuka Kalu

Andrew J Ringer

Nicholas D Shourounis

Igor Bilogrevic

Alan W Yu

Mads N Paulin

Alexander S Haas

Stefan Stuerke

Kevin M Miller

Anant Jain

Marcelo Lotif Araujo

Michael Chatzidakis

An access control system is provided to prevent the surreptitious granting of access to privacy related functionality on an electronic device. Software-based events to grant access to device functionality can be validated by confirming that the software event corresponds with a hardware input event. This validation prevents the spoofing of a user interface input that may be used to fraudulently grant access to specific functionality.

Authenticated interface element interactions

Embodiments described herein provide a software-based privacy indicator for a camera and microphone that focuses not purely on hardware status (e.g., on or off), but on whether potentially private data is flowing to the system or an application. If based purely on hardware status, the indicator for an electronic device may be shown in scenarios where no data actually flows to the system or applications. The privacy indicator will be enabled if any camera or microphone data is relayed to the operating system or an application that is executed via the operating system. When the device uses the microphone and camera to capture environmental metadata about the surroundings of the device without providing any audio samples, images, or video frames to the system or an application, the privacy indicator will not be enabled.

Software initiated camera and microphone indicator

Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to receive, at a client device, a machine learning model from a server, detect a usage pattern for a content item, store an association between the content item and the detected usage pattern in local data, train the machine learning model using local data for the content item with the detected usage pattern to generate a trained machine learning model, generate an update for the machine learning model, privatize the update for the machine learning model, and transmit the privatized update for the machine learning model to the server.

User behavior model development with private federated learning

Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising receiving a machine learning model from a server at a client device, training the machine learning model using local data at the client device, generating an update for the machine learning model, the update including a weight vector that represents a difference between the received machine learning model and the trained machine learning model, privatizing the update for the machine learning model, and transmitting the privatized update for the machine learning model to the server.

Private federated learning with protection against reconstruction

Techniques are disclosed relating to application verification. In various embodiments, a computing device includes a secure circuit configured to maintain a plurality of cryptographic keys of the computing device. In such an embodiment, the computing device receives, from an application, a request for an attestation usable to confirm an integrity of the application, instructs the secure circuit to use one of the plurality of cryptographic keys to supply the attestation for the application, and provides the attestation to a remote computing system in communication with the application. In some embodiments, the secure circuit is configured to verify received metadata pertaining to the identity of the application and use the cryptographic key to generate the attestation indicative of the identity of the application.

Application integrity attestation

A device receives a time-based restriction for usage by a first user with respect to an application, a website or a device-level function. The device receives encrypted data indicating a usage by the first user on a second device with respect to the application, website or device-level function. The device determines that at least one of the usage by the first user on the second device or a usage by the first user on the device with respect to the application, website or device-level function violates the time-based restriction. The device provides, in response to the determining, a notification that the time-based restriction has been violated by the first user.

Managing device usage

Private and secure autocomplete suggestions are enabled based on a user contacts database, even when an application has not been granted access to the user contacts database. A keyboard process can receive and display suggestions based on input provided via the keyboard. The suggestions are generated based on a contacts database of a user. The suggestions are generated without exposing the contacts database to the application. Suggestions are then displayed to the user without exposing the suggestions to the application. Once a suggestion is selected by a user, the selected suggestion is provided to the application for insertion into a text field.

Contacts autocomplete keyboard

A method and apparatus of a device that generates a re-ranking model used to re-rank a plurality of search results on a client device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a crowd-sourced intra-domain model from a server, where the intra-domain model is a search result re-ranking model generated based on at least device interactions of a plurality of users interacting with a plurality of other devices. The device further generates a re-ranking model from the crowd-sourced intra-domain model and a local model, where the local model includes private data representing a device user's interaction with that device and the re-ranking model is used to re-rank a plurality of search results.

Blending learning models for search support

The current invention provides a system and method for Data Owners to share with Data Seekers extracted insights from the Big Data, instead of raw data or anonymized raw data, thus reducing or eliminating privacy concerns on the data owned by the Data Owners. An Oblivious Pseudo Random Function (OPRF) is used, with operations using OPRFs occur over encrypted data, thus Data Owners learn only the primary object from Data Seeker and nothing else about the remainder of Data Owners' data. Similarly, Data Seeker learns a list of associated secondary objects and nothing else about Data Owners' data. The extent of sharing can be limited using a predefined threshold depending how much private information Data Owner is willing to share or Data Seeker is willing to pay.

System for privacy-preserving monetization of big data and method for using the same

A method and apparatus of a device that re-rank a plurality of search results is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a search query from a user and generates the plurality of search results over a plurality of search domains, wherein the plurality of search results is ranked according to a first ranking. The device additionally generates a re-ranking model, where the re-ranking model includes a plurality of intra-domain models that are generated based on at least based on-device interactions of a plurality of users interacting with a plurality of other devices and each of the plurality of search domains corresponds to one of the plurality of intra-domain models. The device further re-ranks the plurality of search results using the re-ranking model and presents the plurality of search results using the second ranking.

Re-ranking search results using blended learning models

Systems and methods are disclosed for a server learning new words generated by user client devices in a crowdsourced manner while maintaining local differential privacy of client devices. A client device can determine that a word typed on the client device is a new word that is not contained in a dictionary or asset catalog on the client device. New words can be grouped in classifications such as entertainment, health, finance, etc. A differential privacy system on the client device can comprise a privacy budget for each classification of new words. If there is privacy budget available for the classification, then one or more new terms in a classification can be sent to new term learning server, and the privacy budget for the classification reduced. The privacy budget can be periodically replenished.

Learning new words

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media may be provided for securely authenticating device identification and/or user identification for low throughput device-to-device wireless communication.

Secure authentication of device identification for low throughput device to-device wireless communication

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Julien F Freudiger