System and means for detecting automated programs used to generate social media input
US11005843B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 30, 2019 |
| Grant date | May 11, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 10, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2463/144
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A means and system is designed to distinguish human users from bots (automated programs to generate posts or interactions) in social media (including microblogging services and social networking services) by assigning a likelihood score to each user for being a human or a bot. The bot score assigned to each user is computed from statistical, temporal and text features that are detected in user's social media interactions (relative indicators specific to a given social media data set) and user's historical profile information.
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