- Patent Title: Detecting synthetic online entities facilitated by primary entities
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Application No.: US16623699Application Date: 2018-06-29
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Publication No.: US11431736B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Chris Brown , Rakesh Patel , John Mullinax , Troy Cole , Julio Farach , Lee Grice , Patrick Wadkins , Erik Strong , Cordell Boynes
- Applicant: EQUIFAX INC.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
- Current Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2018/040245 WO 20180629
- International Announcement: WO2019/006272 WO 20190103
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/40 ; G06F16/23 ; G06F21/62 ; G06Q20/40 ; G06Q40/02

Abstract:
In some aspects, a computing system can generate entity links between a primary entity object identifying a primary entity for multiple accounts and secondary entity objects identifying secondary entities from the accounts. The computing system can determine a rate at which secondary users change on the accounts. The computing system can update, based on the determined rate, the primary entity object to include a fraud-facilitation flag. The computing system can also service a query from a client system regarding a presence of a fraud warning for a target consumer associated with a consumer system that accesses a service provided with the client system. For instance, the computing system can generate a fraud warning based on the target consumer being identified in a secondary entity object associated with the primary entity object having the fraud-facilitation flag. The computing system can transmit the fraud warning to the client system.
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