US Patent 10467234 Differentially private database queries involving rank statistics

A differentially private security system is communicatively coupled to a database. The differentially private security system receives a request from a client device to perform a query of the database and identifies a level of differential privacy corresponding to the request. The identified level of differential privacy includes privacy parameters (ε,δ) indicating the degree of information released about the database. The differentially private security system performs a differentially private query upon a set of data in the database such that the performance of the query produces a result that is (ε,δ)-differentially private.