Social signature
US10616353B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 14, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 7, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 21, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/306
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The disclosure is directed to determining a social signature of a user of an application, e.g., a social networking application. The social signature can be a representation of social properties of a person, and can be determined based on various factors, e.g., user profile of the user and friends of the user. The social signature can be used for various applications, e.g., determining socially similarity of a user pair and determining if a user is a spammer. The social signature is determined as a vector of k buckets in which each of the k buckets indicates a count of friends of the user assigned to the corresponding bucket. A social similarity of a user pair is determined as a function of the social signatures of the user pair. A user is determined as likely to be a spammer if the social signature of the user is of a specified pattern.
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