System and method for validating users using social network or other information from a wed site
AssigneeZoosk, Inc., a Delaware corporation
InventorsAlexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh
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Abstract
A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
Claims21
A method of granting at least one privilege to a user on a first web site, comprising:
- receiving information that can be used to access information from the user's account on a second web site;
- retrieving information from the user's account on the second website responsive to the information received;
- performing an analysis of the information retrieved;
- and
- granting to the user the at least one privilege on the first web site responsive to the performing the analysis step.
A system for granting at least one privilege to a user on a first web site, comprising:
- a registration manager having an input coupled for receiving information that can be used to access the user's account on a second web site, the registration manager for providing at an output the received information that can be used to access the user's account on the second web site;
- a social network retrieval manager having an input coupled to the registration manager output for receiving the information that can be used to access the user's account, the social network retrieval manager for retrieving via an input/output information from the user's account on the second web site responsive to the information that can be used to access the user's account and for providing at an output the information from the user's account on the second web site;
- at least one scorer having an input coupled to the social network retrieval manager output for receiving at least some of the information from the user's account at the second web site, each of the at least one manager for performing an analysis of the information retrieved and providing at an output at least one result of that analysis;
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- an accept/reject/monitor manager having an input coupled to the at least one scorer for receiving the result of the analysis of each of the at least one scorer, the accept/reject/monitor manager for providing at an output an indication that the at least one privilege on the first web site has been granted responsive to the result of the analysis received from each of the at least one scorers.
A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for granting at least one privilege to a user on a first web site, the computer program product comprising computer readable program code devices configured to cause a computer system to:
- receive information that can be used to access the user's account on a second web site;
- retrieve information from the user's account on the second website responsive to the information received;
- perform an analysis of the information retrieved;
- and
- grant to the user the at least one privilege on the first web site responsive to the performing the analysis step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.