US 2014/0280124 A1Published application

Social Graph Sybils

OwnerAndrew Tikofsky, John Nicholas Grossinventors

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Abstract

Artificial identities or information sources are created and used for—among other things—the purpose of manipulating the output of information retrieval, recommendation systems, or any information gathering and classifying technique based on relationships between information sources. Fictitious information sources or information designed to be recognized as untrustworthy by an information trust ranking system are created. By linking otherwise trustworthy information sources to fictitious information or information, they also appear less trustworthy. Target information or information sources are made to rank much lower in the output of systems designed to prioritize trustworthy information sources. Other applications include creating information or associations to make targeted information or information sources rank higher and reliable by information retrieval or recommendation systems.

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Dependent claims

A method implemented on a computing system for changing the output of an information retrieval system that relies on the relationships between information sources or the trustworthiness of information sources in a social graph comprising:

a. defining target information or a target information source of interest;
b. defining a desired outcome for target requester information retrieval systems of interest attempting to access said target information or target information source;
c. defining, labeling, and storing relevant information and information sources for said desired outcome with the computing system;
d. providing a set of placement calculation algorithms adapted to generate misleading information to achieve said desired outcome to said target requester information retrieval systems;
e. generating and placing said misleading information within said social graph;
f. maintaining and updating said misleading information over time to meet and maintain said desired outcome.

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