US 8,949,948 B2 · Determining a trust level of a user in a social network environment

Abstract

A system and method for determining a trust level for a non-approved user in a social network is described. The method includes monitoring requests for social network interactions between an approved user and the non-approved user and determining if each interaction requested is of a first type or a second type. The method further includes increasing a first trust value when the interaction requested is of the first type and increasing a second trust value when the interaction requested is of the second type. The method further includes determining the trust level based on the first trust value and the second trust value. The method further includes changing the status of the non-approved user to an approved user based on the trust level, the first trust value and/or the second trust value.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

maintaining, for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system, a trust level associated with the user representing a global trustworthiness of the user in the social networking system;
receiving a telephone number associated with a user of the plurality of users;
sending a message to a device associated with the telephone number;
receiving a response to the message;
responsive to receiving the response to the message, determining if the received telephone number has been used to verify another user of the social networking system;
and
increasing, by a processor, the trust level associated with the user if the received telephone number has not been used to verify another user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/160,292Filed 21 Jan 2014 · continuation

Priority

2 Feb 2007

Published

US 2014/0137201 A115 May 2014

Granted

3 Feb 2015

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 63/105
For controlling access to devices or network resources: multiple levels of security
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services
H04L 63/104
For controlling access to devices or network resources: grouping of entities
H04L 67/30
Architectures; Arrangements: profiles

Family

Application11/701,595Parent of this division · filed 2 Feb 2007

Application12/900,430Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Oct 2010

US 8,549,651 B2Parent of this division · filed 1 Oct 2013

US 2014/0137201 A1Pre-grant publication · published 15 May 2014

US 8,656,463 B2Parent of this continuation

Application12/900,430Parent of this division

US 2008/0189768 A1Published application

US 2011/0035789 A1Published application

US 8,949,948 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Determining a trust level of a user in a social network environment

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Abstract

Claims20