US Patent Issued to Google on July 28 for "Privacy preserving group-based content distribution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,728, issued on July 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy preserving group-based content distribution" was invented by Wei Huang (Kirkland, Wash.), Michael William Daub (Woodinville, Wash.), Robert F. Day (Bellevue, Wash.) and Arthur Asuncion (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for displaying digital components on client devices based on predicted user attributes of users are described. In one aspect, a method includes updating, at a client device of a user, a list of user group identifiers for the u...