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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stuart MacDonald Ambler, Longmont, CO (US);
Parul Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In an example, a submission of a confidential data value of a first confidential data type is received from a first user with one or more attributes. A plurality of previously submitted confidential data values of a first confidential data type for a cohort matching the one or more attributes of the first user are retrieved. A plurality of percentiles for the confidential data values are calculated. Then, an interquartile range is calculated for a first and a second of the plurality of percentiles. A lower limit for the first confidential data type and the cohort is computed by taking a maximum of zero or the difference between the value for the first of the plurality of percentiles and a product of a preset alpha parameter and the interquartile range. Then it is determined if the confidential data value submitted by the user is lower than the lower limit.