Patents by Inventor Taylor Greason

Taylor Greason 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).

  • Publication number: 20190080116
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for anonymizing statistical reports to protect user privacy. In one embodiment, a first request to view an aggregated statistic pertaining to online behavior of multiple users is received. In response to receiving the first request, a plurality of attributes associated with the first request is determined; a function is applied that accepts a seed value and the plurality of attributes to generate a number; a particular noise factor is determined based on the number and a distribution of noise factors; a true value for the aggregated statistic is determined; a noisy value that is different than the true value is determined based on the true value and the particular noise factor; and the noisy value is presented in response to the first request instead of the true value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Thanh Thi Lac Tran, Mark Dietz, Taylor Greason, Ian Vaughn Koeppe