Patent 12111945 was granted and assigned to Google on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for allowing suitable digital components to be automatically selected and provided to a client device. Methods can include generating a universal identifier for a digital component that is presented in the application. The application updates a set of universal identifiers that has been created for digital components presented by the application over a specified time period. The application identifies digital components and the corresponding universal identifiers that are blocked and generates a probabilistic data structure representing the set of blocked universal identifiers. The application creates multiple shares of the probabilistic data structure and transmits different shares to different servers. The application receives a separate response generated by each of the different servers based on the multiple shares and identifies a digital component to present in the application based on a combination of the separate responses.