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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
May. 12, 2022
Tripleblind, Inc., Kansas City, MO (US);
Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Kansas City, MO (US);
Riddhiman Das, Parkville, MO (US);
Gharib Gharibi, Overland Park, KS (US);
TripleBlind, Inc., Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for each party of a group of m parties to be able to learn an Nth smallest value in a combined list. The method includes providing a value Rto a group of members; computing how many numbers are smaller than Rin a respective list of values for each respective member of the group of members; computing, a total number of smaller values (P); identifying a position of Rin a combined list of values comprising each respective list of values; when N=P+1, returning R; when N is greater than P+1, removing all values smaller than Rin their respective list of values and setting N=N−(P+1); when N is less than P+1, removing all numbers bigger than Rin their respective list of value; and setting i=i+1.