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- Patent Title: Discovering spam merchants using product feed similarity
- Patent Title (中): 使用产品Feed相似性来发现垃圾邮件商家
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Application No.: US13443675Application Date: 2012-04-10
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Publication No.: US08396935B1Publication Date: 2013-03-12
- Inventor: Mircea Gabriel Ciurumelea , Stefan Christoph
- Applicant: Mircea Gabriel Ciurumelea , Stefan Christoph
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Johnson, Marcou & Isaacs, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16

Abstract:
Discovering spam merchants using product feed comparison comprises a merchant signature computed by a comparison system using the offer data submitted by a merchant. The merchant submits a file to the comparison system for use on a product comparison website. The comparison system processes the file and calculates a merchant signature by parsing a specific feature common to all offers. The comparison system assigns a data value to each of the specific features included in each of the offers and generates a string of assigned data values. The comparison system executes a hash algorithm for the string of data values to obtain the merchant signature. The merchant signature is compared with the signatures of known spam merchants and if the merchant signature is within a predefined threshold of known spam merchant signatures, the merchant is rejected and the signature is marked as a spam merchant.
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