Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, method and article to facilitate automatic detection and removal of fraudulent user information in a network environment
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Application No.: US18069866Application Date: 2022-12-21
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Publication No.: US11949747B2Publication Date: 2024-04-02
- Inventor: Thomas Levi , Steve Oldridge
- Applicant: PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA ULC
- Applicant Address: CA Vancouver
- Assignee: PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA ULC
- Current Assignee: PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA ULC
- Current Assignee Address: CA Vancouver
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group LLP
- The original application number of the division: US14561004 2014.12.04
- Main IPC: G06F21/55
- IPC: G06F21/55 ; G06F21/57 ; H04L67/306

Abstract:
A fraud detection system may obtain a number of known fraudulent end-user profiles and/or otherwise undesirable end-user profiles. Using statistical analysis techniques that include clustering the end-user profiles by attributes and attribute values and/or combinations of attributes and attribute values, the fraud detection system identifies on a continuous, periodic, or aperiodic basis those attribute values and/or attribute value combinations that appear in fraudulent or otherwise undesirable end-user profiles. Using this data, the fraud detection system generates one or more queries to identify those end-user profiles having attribute values or combinations of attribute values that likely indicate a fraudulent or otherwise undesirable end-user profile. The fraud detection system can run these queries against incoming registrations to identify and screen fraudulent end-user profiles from entering the system and can also run these queries against stored end-user profile databases to identify and remove fraudulent or otherwise undesirable end-user profiles from the end-user database.
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