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User location reputation system

  • US 8,255,393 B1
  • Filed: 05/07/2010
  • Issued: 08/28/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of building a user reputation database for use in a user location data system, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a quarantine server, user location information comprising personally identifiable data of a user and user position data, wherein the user position data may or may not represent one or more actual geographic positions of the user;

    temporarily storing the user location information in a quarantine data storage database for a predetermined quarantine time;

    analyzing, by the quarantine server during the predetermined quarantine time, the user location information to provide a spam score associated with the user position data indicative of whether the user position data represents the actual geographic positions of the user;

    wherein the analyzing comprises analyzing the frequency of submission of user identification data of a particular user against predetermined benchmarks based on frequency of submissions of user location information from other users;

    storing in the quarantine data storage database the spam score associated with the user location information;

    providing data indicative of the spam score and the personally identifiable data to a user reputation database and storing a user reputation score in the user reputation database associated with the user based on the spam score; and

    providing data indicative of the spam score and the user position data associated with the spam score, without the personally identifiable data, to a filtered data storage system for long term storage.

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