System and method for monitoring and reporting peer communications
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1. A computer-implemented monitoring and reporting method comprising:
- receiving via a network identifying information associated with at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to a particular subject;
providing an on-line monitoring agent for locally monitoring the particular subject on a personal computing device, wherein said on-line monitoring agent includes a redirection agent for redirecting network traffic of the particular subject;
receiving with a proxy server via the redirection agent an outgoing connection to a targeted application server;
monitoring via a network connectable computing system an account associated with the targeted application server at least by scraping an application interface for at least one communication received by or generated by the particular subject;
monitoring overall activity, number of friend associations and content metrics associated with the at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject;
analyzing a plurality of communications between the particular subject and at least one peer to determine at least one of a particular sentiment of the particular subject or a particular topic of a communication; and
reporting analyzed results to the user.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented subject monitoring method is provided. The method includes providing an online-monitoring agent configured for monitoring a personal computing device, receiving identifying information associated with at least one of an account, email address, site, and service from the personal computing device via the online-monitoring agent, and monitoring via a network the at least one of the account, email address, site, and service based on the identifying information received via the online-monitoring agent.
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1. A computer-implemented monitoring and reporting method comprising:
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receiving via a network identifying information associated with at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to a particular subject; providing an on-line monitoring agent for locally monitoring the particular subject on a personal computing device, wherein said on-line monitoring agent includes a redirection agent for redirecting network traffic of the particular subject; receiving with a proxy server via the redirection agent an outgoing connection to a targeted application server; monitoring via a network connectable computing system an account associated with the targeted application server at least by scraping an application interface for at least one communication received by or generated by the particular subject; monitoring overall activity, number of friend associations and content metrics associated with the at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; analyzing a plurality of communications between the particular subject and at least one peer to determine at least one of a particular sentiment of the particular subject or a particular topic of a communication; and reporting analyzed results to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36)
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33. The method of claim wherein monitoring overall activity comprises determining a particular peer is communicating with the particular subject during a particular time period, the method further comprising:
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setting a particular threshold corresponding to the particular peer responsive to determining that the particular peer is communicating with the particular subject during the particular time period; and detecting a triggering criterion within the targeted application server at least by determining that at least one communication between the particular subject and the particular peer includes triggering data corresponding to the particular threshold.
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37. A computer activity monitoring and reporting system comprising:
at least one computing system including at least one memory comprising instructions operable to enable the at least one computing system to perform a procedure comprising; providing an on-line monitoring agent for locally monitoring a particular subject, wherein said on-line monitoring agent includes a redirection agent for redirecting network traffic of the particular subject; receiving via a network identifying information associated with at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; sending to a proxy server via the redirection agent an outgoing connection to a targeted application server based on the identifying information; monitoring via a network the targeted application server to obtain at least one communication received by or generated by the particular subject; monitoring overall activity, number of friend associations and content metrics associated with the at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; analyzing a plurality of communications between the particular subject and at least one peer to determine at least one of a particular sentiment or a particular topic; and reporting analyzed results to a user; wherein monitoring the targeted application server comprises scraping an application interface to obtain the at least one communication.
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38. A computer-implemented monitoring and reporting method comprising:
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receiving via a network identifying information associated with a social networking account corresponding to a particular subject; monitoring via a network by a network connectable computing system the social networking account based on the received identifying information at least by scraping an application interface for at least one communication received by or generated by the particular subject; monitoring overall activity, number of friend associations and content metrics associated with the at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; analyzing a plurality of communications between the particular subject and at least one peer to determine at least one of a particular sentiment or a particular topic; reporting analyzed results to a user. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40)
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41. A computer-implemented monitoring and reporting method comprising:
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providing an on-line monitoring agent for monitoring a particular subject, wherein said on-line monitoring agent includes a redirection agent for redirecting network traffic of the particular subject; receiving via a network identifying information associated with at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; sending to a proxy server via the redirection agent an outgoing connection to a targeted application server based on the identifying information; monitoring via a network the targeted application server to determine an activity level of the at least one of the account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; monitoring overall activity, number of friend associations and content metrics associated with the at least one of an account, email address, site, or service corresponding to the particular subject; analyzing a plurality of communications between the particular subject and at least one peer to determine at least one of a particular sentiment of the particular subject or a particular topic of a communication; comparing the activity level with a particular threshold to determine that the at least one of the account, email address, site, or service corresponds to a decoy account of the particular subject; and reporting analyzed results including that the at least one of the account, email address, site, or service corresponds to a decoy account of the particular subject to a user.
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42. A computer-implemented monitoring and reporting method comprising:
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receiving via a network identifying information associated with at least one of an account or an electronic address corresponding to a particular subject; monitoring via a network by a network connectable computing system the at least one of the account or the electronic address based on the received identifying information to determine an activity level corresponding to the particular subject; monitoring overall activity, number of friend associations and content metrics associated with the at least one of the account or the electronic address corresponding to the particular subject; analyzing a plurality of communications between the particular subject and at least one peer to determine at least one of a particular sentiment of the particular subject or a particular topic of a communication; comparing the activity level with a particular threshold to determine that the at least one of the account or the electronic address corresponds to at least one of a decoy account or a decoy electronic address of the particular subject; and reporting analyzed results including that the at least one of the account or the electronic address corresponds to at least one of a decoy account or a decoy electronic address of the particular subject. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46)
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