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US 9,756,077 B2Granted
Implementing security in a social application
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJonathan Dunne, Jason Flood, Jeffrey B. Sloyer, Ian David Stewart
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Abstract
Implementing security in social applications includes inferring a closeness level of a connection to a user's profile of a social application based on a closeness policy and implementing a security level individualized to the connection based on the closeness level.
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A method for implementing security in social applications, comprising:
- with a computer, inferring a closeness level of a relationship in a social network between a user and a person listed as a connection in the user's profile of a social application of the social network, the inferring of the closeness level being based on a closeness policy;
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- with the computer, implementing a security level, in the social network, individualized to said person listed as a connection, the security level implemented being determined based on said closeness level, wherein the security level governs electronic access that the person has in the social application with respect to information about the user.
A method for implementing security in social applications, comprising, with a computer:
- inferring a closeness level of a relationship in a social network between a user and a person listed as a connection in the user's profile of a social application of the social network, the inferring of the closeness level being based on a closeness policy;
- implementing a security level, in the social network, individualized to said person listed as a connection, the security level implemented being determined based on said closeness level;
- monitoring communications from said person listed as a connection in real-time;
- adjusting said closeness level based on said communications from said connection monitored in real-time;
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- determining a closeness level threshold and removing said connections from said user's profile in response to said closeness level of said person listed as a connection falling below said closeness level threshold.
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A method for implementing security in social applications, comprising, with a computer:
- inferring a closeness level of a relationship in a social network between a user and a person listed as a connection in the user's profile of a social application of the social network, the inferring of the closeness level being based on a closeness policy, wherein the closeness policy takes into account all of a frequency of communication between said connection and said user's profile through said social application, a type of communication between said connection and said user's profile through said social application, and subject matter in communication between said connection and said user's profile through said social application;
- implementing a security level, in the social network, individualized to said person listed as a connection, the security level implemented being determined based on said closeness level, wherein implementing said security level based on said closeness level includes implementing a less restrictive security level to connections with higher closeness levels and implementing a more restrictive security level to connections with lower closeness levels, wherein implementing said more restrictive security level to connections with low closeness levels causes said social application to block communications from said user's profile that would otherwise be permitted;
- monitoring communications from said person listed as a connection in real-time;
- adjusting said closeness level based on said communications from said connection monitored in real-time;
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- removing said connections from said user's profile in response to said closeness level of said person listed as a connection falling below a predetermined threshold.
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