US Patent Issued to Warner Bros. Entertainment on June 17 for "Systems and methods to maintain user privacy while providing recommendations" (Maine, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,050, issued on June 17, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to maintain user privacy while providing recommendations" was invented by Sarah J. Rich (York, Maine) and Benjamin Recht (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A systematic method of introducing obfuscating "organic" noise to a user's content engagement history leverages a recommender system by creating a public history on a client device which is a superset of the user's true engagement history. The method builds up the superset history over time through a client's interaction with the recommender system by simul...