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Categorizing Social Network Objects Based on User Affiliations

  • US 20120158851A1
  • Filed: 12/21/2010
  • Published: 06/21/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method for categorizing groups of users in a social networking system based on maliciousness of activity associated with the groups, the method comprising:

  • identifying a set of malicious groups associated with a social networking system, the malicious groups predetermined to be associated with a type of malicious activity;

    selecting users associated with the malicious groups, wherein each user is selected based on a measure of interactions of the user with the malicious groups exceeding a threshold value;

    selecting a set of potentially malicious groups associated with the selected users;

    receiving keywords associated with the type of malicious activity and searching for keyword occurrences in information associated with each potentially malicious group;

    determining a level of association of each potentially malicious group with the type of malicious activity based on the keyword occurrences; and

    storing information describing the association of each potentially malicious group with the type of malicious activity.

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