Patent Document ID: 9002007
Application ID: 13020708
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving first encrypted input data, wherein the first encrypted input data comprises input data that has been bit-wise encrypted using an additive homomorphic cryptosystem; computing, with a processor, a function with a classifier, using the first encrypted data, for each node of a classification tree, the classification tree comprising a decision tree that is a multivariate tree having one or more multiple-feature splits; sending second encrypted data that comprises an encrypted version of results of computing the function for said each node; receiving first and second encrypted vectors, each encrypted using the additive homomorphic cryptosystem, the first encrypted vector containing an encrypted version of a vector containing a classification decision at each node in the classification tree and the second encrypted vector containing a complementary of the vector containing a classification decision at each node in the classification tree, wherein each of the first and second encrypted vectors are P-dimensional encrypted binary vectors, and the order of encrypted data in the second vector is not indicative of node location in the classification tree; for each node in a path in the classification tree, selecting a value from either the first and second encrypted vectors based on the classification decision at said each node, and computing a vector of values using the additive homomorphic cryptosystem based on the value using values selected from the first and second encrypted vectors; and sending the vector of values from which decryption of each value in the vector results in a single element in a domain of class values and a corresponding class in the classification tree can be obtained for the input data.