MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517011866 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on Feb. 12, for 'privacy-preserving causal inference.'
Inventor(s) include Pouget-Abadie, Jean Guillaume Marc Marie; Mirrokni Banadaki, Seyed Vahab; and Javanmard, Adel.
The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In some aspects, a method includes receiving a treatment of an item that is to be tested on a plurality of users that are assigned to a plurality of clusters; providing, the item without the treatment to controlled users, and the item with the treatment to treated users; receiving a first set of responses from controlled users, and a second set of responses from treated users; for each cluster of users, identifying a first subset of responses received from controlled users in the cluster and a second subset of responses from treated users in the cluster; generating i) a first noise-added response distribution for the first subset of responses, and ii) a second noise-added response distribution for the second subset of responses; generating privatized responses by selecting either the response or a random sample from a particular noise-added response distribution; and providing the privatized responses to a treatment provider device."
The patent application was internationally filed on May 17, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/029882.
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