Patents by Inventor Andrew R. Byde

Andrew R. Byde 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).

  • Differential privacy with cloud data
    Patent number: 11496286
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein enable data associated with a large plurality of users to be analyzed without compromising the privacy of the user data. In one embodiment, a user can opt-in to allow analysis of clear text of the user's emails. An analysis process can then be performed in which an analysis service receives clear text of an email of a client device; processes the clear text of the email into one or more tokens having one or more tags; enriches one or more tokens in the processed email using data associated with a user of the client device and the one or more tags; and processes the clear text and one or more enriched tokens to generate a data set of one or more feature vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Duffy, Andrew H. Vyrros, Yannis Minadakis, Andrew R. Byde, Giulia Pagallo
  • DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY WITH CLOUD DATA
    Publication number: 20180198602
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein enable data associated with a large plurality of users to be analyzed without compromising the privacy of the user data. In one embodiment, a user can opt-in to allow analysis of clear text of the user's emails. An analysis process can then be performed in which an analysis service receives clear text of an email of a client device; processes the clear text of the email into one or more tokens having one or more tags; enriches one or more tokens in the processed email using data associated with a user of the client device and the one or more tags; and processes the clear text and one or more enriched tokens to generate a data set of one or more feature vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: William T. Duffy, Andrew H. Vyrros, Yannis Minadakis, Andrew R. Byde, Giulia Pagallo