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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2008
David A. Fattal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marco Florentino, Mountain View, CA (US);
Raymond G. Beausoleil, Redmond, WA (US);
David A. Fattal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marco Florentino, Mountain View, CA (US);
Raymond G. Beausoleil, Redmond, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to oblivious transfer protocols and to system for performing oblivious transfer. Embodiments of the present invention include a private data sampling protocol that is designed to balance the competing privacy interest of a database user and a database owner. Protocol embodiments enable the database user to obtain a fixed size random sample of the available data held by the database owner without the database owner learning which bits of data were accessed.