Classifying social entities and applying unique policies on social entities based on crowd-sourced data

US10511562B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Proofpoint, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Richard B. Sutton · San Mateo, US
• Daniel Oshiro Nadir · Carlsbad, US
• Devin H. Redmond · Encinitas, US
• Harold Nguyen · Burlingame, US
• Anthony Lawrence Dorie · San Francisco, US
• Jorge Iriso · Alameda, US
• Wenchang Yan · Burlingame, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 26, 2018
• Grant date: Dec 17, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 26, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/535
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Technology is disclosed for detecting, classifying, and/or enforcing rules on social networking activity. The technology can scan and collect social content data from one or more social networks, store the social content data, classify content data posted to a social network, create and apply a set of social data content rules to future posted social content data.