Patents by Inventor Alistair Joseph Bastian

Alistair Joseph Bastian has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11822375
    Abstract: A method at a controller (112) of a database network (110) is provided. The controller (112) receives (S100) a request for a first set of data entries (200a). The request comprises a public identifier and an identifier of a first database (111a) of the plurality of databases (111) from which the first set of data entries (200a) is to be retrieved, each data entry (210) in the first set of data entries (200a) comprising a respective raw value for each of a plurality of attributes (220). The controller (112) retrieves the first set of data entries (200a) and uses the public identifier to transform (S120) the raw values of at least a first attribute (220a) of the plurality of attributes (220) into respective synthetic values. The controller (112) generates (S130) and outputs (S140) a first dataset (300a) comprising data entries having the synthetic values for the first attribute (220a) and the raw values for at least one of the attributes (220).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: INFOSUM LIMITED
    Inventors: Alistair Joseph Bastian, Jason Clifford Tye, Stephen Paul Rowles, Ashkan Lorkalantari, Robert Graham Clayburn
  • Patent number: 10579827
    Abstract: User events are processed to estimate a unique user count. An identifier hash, having a bucket index portion denoting one of a plurality hash buckets, is generated for each of the user events. At a processing node, each of the user events is allocated to one of a plurality of processing threads based on the bucket index portion of its identifier hash. A unique user count is estimated as follows: for each user event satisfying at least one query parameter, 1) determine a run length of a second portion of its identifier hash, 2) compare it with a value of the hash bucket denoted by the bucket index portion of that identifier hash, and 3) if the determined run length is greater, change that hash bucket value at that node to match the determined run length. The hash bucket values are used to estimate the unique user count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Meltwater News International Holdings GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Telford, Andi Miller, Alistair Joseph Bastian
  • Patent number: 10482285
    Abstract: User events of a platform are processed to extract aggregate information about users of the platform at an event processing system. A query relating to the user events is received at the system and at least one query parameter is determined from the query. Various privacy controls are disclosed for ensuring that any information released in response to the query cannot be used to identify users individually or to infer information about individual users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mediasift Limited
    Inventors: Lorenzo Alberton, Alistair Joseph Bastian, Timothy David Budden
  • Patent number: 10467433
    Abstract: User events of a platform are processed to extract aggregate information about users of the platform at an event processing system. A query relating to the user events is received at the system and at least one query parameter is determined from the query. Various privacy controls are disclosed for ensuring that any information released in response to the query cannot be used to identify users individually or to infer information about individual users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Mediasift Limited
    Inventors: Lorenzo Alberton, Alistair Joseph Bastian, Timothy David Budden
  • Patent number: 10387678
    Abstract: User events of a platform are processed to extract aggregate information about users of the platform at an event processing system. A query relating to the user events is received at the system and at least one query parameter is determined from the query. Various privacy controls are disclosed for ensuring that any information released in response to the query cannot be used to identify users individually or to infer information about individual users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Mediasift Limited
    Inventors: Lorenzo Alberton, Alistair Joseph Bastian, Timothy David Budden
  • Publication number: 20190026491
    Abstract: User events are processed to estimate a unique user count. An identifier hash, having a bucket index portion denoting one of a plurality hash buckets, is generated for each of the user events. At a processing node, each of the user events is allocated to one of a plurality of processing threads based on the bucket index portion of its identifier hash. A unique user count is estimated as follows: for each user event satisfying at least one query parameter, 1) determine a run length of a second portion of its identifier hash, 2) compare it with a value of the hash bucket denoted by the bucket index portion of that identifier hash, and 3) if the determined run length is greater, change that hash bucket value at that node to match the determined run length. The hash bucket values are used to estimate the unique user count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas TELFORD, Andi MILLER, Alistair Joseph BASTIAN
  • Publication number: 20180314854
    Abstract: User events of a platform are processed to extract aggregate information about users of the platform at an event processing system. A query relating to the user events is received at the system and at least one query parameter is determined from the query. Various privacy controls are disclosed for ensuring that any information released in response to the query cannot be used to identify users individually or to infer information about individual users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Lorenzo ALBERTON, Alistair Joseph BASTIAN, Timothy David BUDDEN
  • Publication number: 20180268167
    Abstract: User events of a platform are processed to extract aggregate information about users of the platform at an event processing system. A query relating to the user events is received at the system and at least one query parameter is determined from the query. Various privacy controls are disclosed for ensuring that any information released in response to the query cannot be used to identify users individually or to infer information about individual users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Lorenzo ALBERTON, Alistair Joseph BASTIAN, Timothy David BUDDEN
  • Publication number: 20180268166
    Abstract: User events of a platform are processed to extract aggregate information about users of the platform at an event processing system. A query relating to the user events is received at the system and at least one query parameter is determined from the query. Various privacy controls are disclosed for ensuring that any information released in response to the query cannot be used to identify users individually or to infer information about individual users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Lorenzo ALBERTON, Alistair Joseph BASTIAN, Timothy David BUDDEN
  • Patent number: 10025645
    Abstract: A system for processing user events from a platform having a plurality of users comprises: an input configured to receive user events of the platform, each of which is associated with an identifier of one of users of the platform; a plurality of event processors for processing the user events; an event allocator configured to allocate the user events to the event processors based on the user identifiers associated with the events; and a total count generator. Each of the user events is assigned to one of the event processors, and the event allocator is configured to allocate all of the user events associated with that user identifier to that same event processor. Each of the event processors is configured to generate, from the user events allocated to it, a local user count indicating a number of unique user identifiers associated with those user events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIASIFT LIMITED
    Inventors: Alistair Joseph Bastian, Timothy David Budden