US Patent Issued to Google on March 31 for "Privacy sensitive estimation of digital resource access frequency" (American, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,697, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy sensitive estimation of digital resource access frequency" was invented by Pasin Manurangsi (Bangkok), Badih Ghazi (Cupertino, Calif.), Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar (Piedmont, Calif.) and Jelani Osei Nelson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, there is provided a method performed by one or more computers that includes: obtaining access data for a digital resource, access data including data identifying a set of users that accessed the digital resource at a time point, processing the access data to generate data defining a t...