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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 05, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin Yeo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joon Young Seo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Giuseppe Persiano, New York, NY (US);
Sarvar Patel, Montville, NJ (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for performing encrypted search includes receiving a search query for a plurality of keywords from a user device that appear in one or more encrypted documents stored on an untrusted storage device. The method also includes accessing an encrypted search index to obtain a first list of document identifiers each representative of a document that includes a first keyword and a second keyword of the plurality of keywords. The method also includes, for each remaining keyword, determining a corresponding list of document identifiers each representative of a document that includes the first, second, and respective remaining keyword. The method includes determining, based on the first list of document identifiers and each corresponding list of document identifiers, a second list of document identifiers each representative of a document that includes each of the plurality of keywords. The method also includes returning the second list to the user device.