Patent ID: 11968236
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 1, wherein applying the at least one differential privacy mechanism to the set of sub-counts further comprises:
selecting, from the set of sub-counts, a set of top k+1 true sub-counts;
determining a set of noisy top k+1 sub-counts by adding the amounts of noise to the set of top k+1 true sub-counts; and
when a noisy sub-count of the set of noisy top k+1 sub-counts is greater than a threshold, including the noisy sub-count in a set of at most k noisy sub-counts; and
including the set of at most k noisy sub-counts in the noisy count breakdown.