Method for Detecting and Remediating Misleading Hyperlinks
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- identifying a hyperlink within an electronic document, wherein the hyperlink includes a domain name; and
automatically taking remedial action against use of the hyperlink if the domain name is determined to be associated with a page rank value that is less than a threshold value and if the domain name is determined to have one or more misleading character substitution, addition, or deletion relative to another domain name that is associated with a page rank value greater than the threshold value.
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Abstract
A method for verifying the validity of a hyperlink, and determining whether the domain name of the website that the user is directed to is valid. In one embodiment, the method identifies a hyperlink, a URL within the hyperlink and a domain name within the URL. The identified domain name is then assigned a page rank parameter. If the page rank parameter is below a threshold value, then the method compares the identified domain name to a list of well-known or high page rank domain names. A similarity parameter is then assigned to the identified domain name to indicate if the hyperlink is misleading. If the link is misleading, the method may implement some configurable remedial action, such as alerting the user or disabling the hyperlink.
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16 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying a hyperlink within an electronic document, wherein the hyperlink includes a domain name; and automatically taking remedial action against use of the hyperlink if the domain name is determined to be associated with a page rank value that is less than a threshold value and if the domain name is determined to have one or more misleading character substitution, addition, or deletion relative to another domain name that is associated with a page rank value greater than the threshold value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer program product including instructions embodied on a computer readable medium for determining the validity of a hyperlink, the instructions comprising:
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instructions for identifying a hyperlink within an electronic document, wherein the hyperlink includes a domain name; instructions for automatically taking remedial action against use of the hyperlink if the domain name is determined to be associated with a page rank value that is less than a threshold value and if the domain name is determined to have one or more misleading character substitution, addition, or deletion relative to another domain name that is associated with a page rank value greater than the threshold value. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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