Patents by Inventor Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler 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: 12231542
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Laura Grace Book, Sheng Ma, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang, Benjamin R. Kreuter, Evgeny Skvortsov, Arthur Asuncion, James Robert Koehler
  • Patent number: 12158868
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for improved per-frequency counting systems that record interactions between individuals and a group of providers while maintaining differential privacy. A protocol may be defined that specifies frequency bins to categorize identifiers corresponding to individuals. A provider may generate a plurality of private sketches, each corresponding to a plurality of frequencies defined in the protocol. Frequency data is determined for each identifier. Identifiers are encoded into the private sketches corresponding to the identifiers' associated frequency. The plurality of private sketches from each provider in the group of providers are combined to generate a deduplicated distribution across the group. In one implementation, the private sketches of each provider are sequentially merged until all sketches have been combined, from which the total distribution can be estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jiayu Peng, Sheng Na Ma, Xichen Huang, James Robert Koehler, Lu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240372704
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin R. Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Arthur Asuncion, Evgeny Skvortsov, Laura Grace BOOK, Sheng MA, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Patent number: 12069161
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin R. Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Arthur Asuncion, Evgeny Skvortsov, Laura Grace Book, Sheng Ma, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Publication number: 20240204988
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin R. Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Evgeny Skvortsov, Arthur Asuncion, Laura Grace Book, Sheng Ma, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Patent number: 11909864
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin R. Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Evgeny Skvortsov, Arthur Asuncion, Laura Grace Book, Sheng Ma, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Publication number: 20230421365
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Laura Grace Book, Sheng Ma, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang, Benjamin R. Kreuter, Evgeny Skvortsov, Arthur Asuncion, James Robert Koehler
  • Patent number: 11813635
    Abstract: A shower caddy includes a 4-way diverter for attachment to a shower arm and to divert water received from the shower arm to a circuit of pipes within the shower caddy. The shower caddy further includes a heating circuit within a basin. The basin holds bathing fluids, and the heating circuit transfers heat from water traveling via the circuit of pipes to the bathing fluids within the basin. The shower caddy further includes an additive infuser attached to the circuit of pipes that infuses an additive into the water flowing through the circuit of pipes when the additive infuser is activated by a user. The circuit of pipes is further connected to a showerhead that outputs the water received from the shower arm following it being used for the heating circuit and/or having an additive infused therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA DEA, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Koehler, Robert Koehler
  • Patent number: 11784800
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Arthur Asuncion, Evgeny Skvortsov, Laura Grace Book, Sheng Ma, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Publication number: 20230144763
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for improved per-frequency counting systems that record interactions between individuals and a group of providers while maintaining differential privacy. A protocol may be defined that specifies frequency bins to categorize identifiers corresponding to individuals. A provider may generate a plurality of private sketches, each corresponding to a plurality of frequencies defined in the protocol. Frequency data is determined for each identifier. Identifiers are encoded into the private sketches corresponding to the identifiers’ associated frequency. The plurality of private sketches from each provider in the group of providers are combined to generate a deduplicated distribution across the group. In one implementation, the private sketches of each provider are sequentially merged until all sketches have been combined, from which the total distribution can be estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Jiayu Peng, Sheng Na Ma, Xichen Huang, James Robert Koehler, Lu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220376887
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Arthur Asuncion, Evgeny Skvortsov, Laura Grace Book, Sheng MA, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Publication number: 20220080436
    Abstract: A shower caddy includes a 4-way diverter for attachment to a shower arm and to divert water received from the shower arm to a circuit of pipes within the shower caddy. The shower caddy further includes a heating circuit within a basin. The basin holds bathing fluids, and the heating circuit transfers heat from water traveling via the circuit of pipes to the bathing fluids within the basin. The shower caddy further includes an additive infuser attached to the circuit of pipes that infuses an additive into the water flowing through the circuit of pipes when the additive infuser is activated by a user. The circuit of pipes is further connected to a showerhead that outputs the water received from the shower arm following it being used for the heating circuit and/or having an additive infused therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jessica KOEHLER, Robert KOEHLER
  • Patent number: 11185875
    Abstract: A shower caddy includes a 4-way diverter for attachment to a shower arm and to divert water received from the shower arm to a circuit of pipes within the shower caddy. The shower caddy further includes a heating circuit within a basin. The basin holds bathing fluids, and the heating circuit transfers heat from water traveling via the circuit of pipes to the bathing fluids within the basin. The shower caddy further includes an additive infuser attached to the circuit of pipes that infuses an additive into the water flowing through the circuit of pipes when the additive infuser is activated by a user. The circuit of pipes is further connected to a showerhead that outputs the water received from the shower arm following it being used for the heating circuit and/or having an additive infused therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: MAGNA DEA, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Koehler, Robert Koehler
  • Publication number: 20210359846
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig WRIGHT, Benjamin R. KREUTER, James Robert KOEHLER, Evgeny SKVORTSOV, Arthur ASUNCION, Laura Grace BOOK, Sheng MA, Jiayu PENG, Xichen HUANG
  • Publication number: 20210359836
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Craig Wright, Benjamin Kreuter, James Robert Koehler, Arthur Asuncion, Evgeny Skvortsov, Laura BOOK, Sheng MA, Jiayu Peng, Xichen Huang
  • Patent number: 11017099
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for entropy balanced population measurement. Entropy balancing is a statistical technique for preprocessing data to achieve covariate balance. Weighting coefficients may be dynamically adjusted to satisfy balance conditions or constraints to adjust for inequalities in representation, thereby improving covariate moments. Using entropy balancing and linear regression analysis with panel content exposure and results data provides a mechanism to estimate the effects of multiple exposure vectors simultaneously, including instances where panelists are exposed to a vector multiple times. Data may be obfuscated or anonymized for preprocessing via a double-encrypted intersection-based extraction mechanism, allowing both measurement systems and panel providers to retain confidential information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Remy, Andrew Smith, Ruixue Fan, Joseph Kelly, James Robert Koehler, Xiaojing Wang
  • Publication number: 20190336997
    Abstract: A shower caddy includes a 4-way diverter for attachment to a shower arm and to divert water received from the shower arm to a circuit of pipes within the shower caddy. The shower caddy further includes a heating circuit within a basin. The basin holds bathing fluids, and the heating circuit transfers heat from water traveling via the circuit of pipes to the bathing fluids within the basin. The shower caddy further includes an additive infuser attached to the circuit of pipes that infuses an additive into the water flowing through the circuit of pipes when the additive infuser is activated by a user. The circuit of pipes is further connected to a showerhead that outputs the water received from the shower arm following it being used for the heating circuit and/or having an additive infused therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jessica KOEHLER, Robert KOEHLER
  • Patent number: 10282357
    Abstract: Methods and systems of reducing computer resource utilization to update rankings based on dynamically generated content are described. The method includes identifying a ranking of content experience types of a list of content experience types. Each content experience type including parameters to generate content experience documents. The method also includes updating the ranking of content experience types. The updating includes iteratively selecting content experience types from the ranking of content experience types to generate an update subset of the ranking of content experience types, generating, for a client device, a feedback request document including a plurality of content experience documents, and receiving feedback information related to the plurality of content experience documents included in the feedback request document to update the ranking of the content experience types included in the update subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Martin Halpin, Jr., Ruixue Fan, Antonella Pavese, Harrison Mark Gordon, Kirsten Paige Yee, Yueqing Wang, Matthew Strecker Burriesci, Sean Patrick Miller, Yijia Feng, James Robert Koehler
  • Patent number: 9782428
    Abstract: Methods and composition for potentiating germinal centers are disclosed herein. The methods include potentiating germinal centers to enhance antibody production in response to a vaccine, to increase antibody titer in response to a vaccine, and to enhance B cell class switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Michail V. Sitkovsky, Robert Koehler Abbott, Stephen Matthew Hatfield
  • Publication number: 20160250248
    Abstract: Methods and composition for potentiating germinal centers are disclosed herein. The methods include potentiating germinal centers to enhance antibody production in response to a vaccine, to increase antibody titer in response to a vaccine, and to enhance B cell class switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Michail V. SITKOVSKY, Robert Koehler ABBOTT, Stephen Matthew HATFIELD