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Spam flood detection methodologies

  • US 9,819,568 B2
  • Filed: 10/04/2016
  • Issued: 11/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • analyzing characteristics of a content item of a webpage to determine whether the content item represents a potential source of spam content, wherein the analyzing comprises;

    selecting, in accordance with predefined selection criteria, a plurality of hypertext markup language (HTML) tags of the webpage;

    creating an ordered sequence of the selected plurality of HTML tags; and

    applying a hash function to the ordered sequence of the selected plurality of HTML tags to map the selected plurality of HTML tags to a characterizing signature of the webpage;

    updating an occurrence count for the characterizing signature in response to the characterizing signature being generated; and

    when the occurrence count is greater than a threshold count, identifying the content item as spam content; and

    flagging the content item of the webpage as spam content.

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