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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Abhishek Bhowmick, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew H. Vyrros, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew R. Salesi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Umesh S. Vaishampayan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/26 (2019.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/606 (2013.01); G06F 16/26 (2019.01); G06F 17/145 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 2209/34 (2013.01); H04L 2209/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein ensure differential privacy when transmitting data to a server that estimates a frequency of such data amongst a set of client devices. The differential privacy mechanism may provide a predictable degree of variance for frequency estimations of data. The system may use a multibit histogram model or Hadamard multibit model for the differential privacy mechanism, both of which provide a predictable degree of accuracy of frequency estimations while still providing mathematically provable levels of privacy.


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