US 12,010,082 B2 · Systems and methods for automatically identifying spam in social media comments based on context

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein for automatically identifying spam in social media comments based on comparison of the context or topic of the popular or trending post with the context or topic of each comment associated with the post. Content of a social media post is processed to identify a topic of the social media post. A plurality of comments associated with the social media post are accessed and the topic of each comment is compared to the topic of the social media post and, if the topics do not match, the comment is identified as spam. A notification is generated for display to an administrator of the social media platform on which the social media post resides identifying the comment as spam.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for detecting spam on a social media platform, the method comprising:

identifying, by a server of the social media platform, a topic of a social media post;
accessing, by the server, a comment associated with the social media post;
determining, by the server, a topic of the comment;
determining, by the server, based on the topic of the comment, a plurality of synonymous topics;
determining, by the server, whether the topic of the comment matches the topic of the social media post based on the plurality of synonymous topics;
and
in response to determining, by the server, that the topic of the comment does not match the topic of the social media post:
identifying, by the server, the comment as unrelated to the social media post;
and
transmitting, by the server to an administrator of the social media platform, a notification comprising an identifier of the comment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/142,877Filed 3 May 2023 · continuation

Priority

15 Aug 2019

Published

US 2023/0275861 A131 Aug 2023

Granted

11 Jun 2024

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services
H04L 51/212
Monitoring or handling of messages: using filtering or selective blocking
H04L 51/52
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: for…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

Family

Application16/541,788Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Aug 2019

US 2023/0275861 A1Pre-grant publication · published 31 Aug 2023

US 11,677,703 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2021/0051124 A1Published application

US 12,010,082 B2This patent

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Systems and methods for automatically identifying spam in social media comments based on context

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Systems and methods for automatically identifying spam in social media comments based on context

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