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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Gagan Aggarwal, Stanford, CA (US);
Nina Mishra, San Ramon, CA (US);
Binyamin Pinkas, Tel Aviv, IL;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for determining a value of an element, having a k-th rank. The method discloses: calculating a total number of elements in a first and second dataset; prohibiting parties from accessing each other's dataset; ranking the elements within each dataset; computing a total number of elements in the datasets each having a value less than a test value; computing a total number of elements in the datasets each having a value greater than the test value; and setting the value of the element, having the k-th rank, equal to the test value, if the total number of elements having values less than the test value is ≦ the k-th rank minus one, and the total number of elements having values greater than the test value is ≦ the total number of elements minus the k-th rank. The system discloses means for practicing the method.