SOCIAL MEDIA RULE ENGINE

• US 20180288070A1
• Filed: 04/03/2018
• Published: 10/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZeroFOX, Inc. (ZeroFox Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ZeroFOX, Inc. (ZeroFox Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Price, Michael, Foster, James, Cullison, Christopher B.
• Granted Patent: US 11,394,722 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/55 Detecting local intrusion or implementing counter-measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/31 Programming languages or programming paradigms
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A computer implemented method includes receiving instructions from a user for identifying data on one or more social networks, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise one or more conditions and one or more actions, identifying, on the one or more social networks, data that is associated with one or more social entities, determining one or more characteristics of the identified data, determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more conditions for identifying data specified in the instructions received from the user, in response to determining that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user, performing one or more actions specified in the instructions received from the user.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving instructions from a user for identifying data on one or more social networks, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise one or more conditions and one or more actions;

identifying, on the one or more social networks, data that is associated with one or more social entities;

determining one or more characteristics of the identified data;

determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more conditions for identifying data specified in the instructions received from the user;

in response to determining that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user, performing one or more actions specified in the instructions received from the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving additional instructions from the user, wherein the additional instructions received from the user comprise one or more additional conditions and one or more additional actions.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more additional conditions specified in the additional instructions received from the user;

in response to determining that the identified data meets the one or more additional conditions specified in the additional instructions received from the user, performing one or more additional actions specified in the additional instructions received from the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise code executable by one or more processors.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise scripting language code.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising continuously scanning the one or more social networks, wherein the data that is associated with the one or more social entities is identified during a scan.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions received from the user specify the one or more social networks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions received from the user specify the one or more social entities.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user comprise the identified data comprising specified content.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more actions specified in the instructions received from the user comprise generating a notification.

11. A system comprising:

one or more processing devices; and

one or more non-transitory computer-readable media coupled to the one or more processing devices having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising;

receiving instructions from a user for identifying data on one or more social networks, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise one or more conditions and one or more actions;

identifying, on one or more social networks, data that is associated with one or more social entities;

determining one or more characteristics of the identified data;

determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user;

in response to determining that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user, performing one or more actions specified in the instructions received from the user.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising receiving additional instructions from the user, wherein the additional instructions received from the user comprise one or more additional conditions and one or more additional actions.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more additional conditions specified in the additional instructions received from the user;

in response to determining that the identified data meets the one or more additional conditions specified in the additional instructions received from the user, performing one or more additional actions specified in the additional instructions received from the user.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise code executable by one or more processors.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise scripting language code.

16. The system of claim 11, further comprising continuously scanning the one or more social networks, wherein the data that is associated with the one or more social entities is identified during a scan.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions received from the user specify the one or more social networks.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions received from the user specify the one or more social entities.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user comprise the identified data comprising specified content.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving instructions from a user for identifying data on one or more social networks, wherein the instructions received from the user comprise one or more conditions and one or more actions;

identifying, on one or more social networks, data that is associated with one or more social entities;

determining one or more characteristics of the identified data;

determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the identified data, that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user;

in response to determining that the identified data meets one or more conditions specified in the instructions received from the user, performing one or more actions specified in the instructions received from the user.