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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Gavin Barraclough, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christophe Dumez, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhishek Bhowmick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew H. Vyrros, San Francisco, CA (US);
Umesh S. Vaishampayan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide a privacy mechanism to protect user data when transmitting the data to a server that estimates a frequency of such data amongst a set of client devices. One embodiment uses a differential privacy mechanism to enhance a user experience by identifying particular websites that exhibit particular characteristics. In one embodiment, websites that are associated with a high resource consumption are identified. High resource consumption can be identified based on threshold of particular resources such as processor, memory, network bandwidth, and power usage.