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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Stuart MacDonald Ambler, Longmont, CO (US);
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, posterior distribution based percentiles for confidential data submitted to a computer system are computed. Then empirical percentiles are computed for the confidential data. A convex combination factor is computed based on a ratio between a number of valid entries in a cohort of the confidential data values and a combination of the number of valid entries in the cohort and the number of valid entries in a parent cohort of the cohort. Then, for each percentile of interest, a convex combination of the empirical percentile and the posterior distribution based percentile is calculated, using the convex combination factor to weight the empirical percentile.