Content monitoring in a high volume on-line community application

a community application and content monitoring technology, applied in the field of online communities, can solve the problems of increasing limitations in the ability of current manual and/or automated content review systems to remove objectionable material from community websites in a timely manner, and achieve the effect of minimizing the risk of exposure of online community members and minimizing the delay of low-risk postings

US20080177834A1Inactive Publication Date: 2008-07-24INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
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Publication Date
2008-07-24
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Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

Disclosed are embodiments a system and method for managing an on-line community. Electronic postings are pre-screened based on one or more metrics to determine a risk value indicative of the likelihood that an individual posting contains objectionable content. These metrics are based on the profile of a poster, including various parameters of the poster and / or the poster's record of objectionable content postings. These metrics can also be based on the social network profile of a poster, including the average of various parameters of other users in the poster's social network and / or a compiled record of objectionable content postings of other users in the poster's social network. If the risk value is relatively low, the posting can be displayed to the on-line community immediately. If the risk value is relatively high, display of the posting can be delayed until further content analysis is completed. Finally, if the risk value is above a predetermined high risk threshold value, the posting can be removed automatically.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 622,112 filed Jan. 11, 2007, the complete disclosure of which, in its entirety, is herein incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND

[0002] 1. Field of the Invention

[0003] The embodiments of the invention generally relate to on-line communities and, more particularly, to a system and method for filtering the content of postings to on-line communities.

[0004] 2. Description of the Related Art

[0005] Online communities allow groups of people to communicate and interact via various online media, such as blogs, wikis, internet forums, chat rooms, instant messaging, electronic mail lists, etc. Each of these online communities may have its own community standards related to the content of online media postings. For example, as with real world media, such online media may have standards to prevent the dissemination of objectionable content as defined by each community's own preset or pre-esta...

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[0023]The embodiments of the invention and the various features and advantageous details thereof are explained more fully with reference to the non-limiting embodiments that are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and detailed in the following description. It should be noted that the features illustrated in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. Descriptions of well-known components and processing techniques are omitted so as to not unnecessarily obscure the embodiments of the invention. The examples used herein are intended merely to facilitate an understanding of ways in which the embodiments of the invention may be practiced and to further enable those of skill in the art to practice the embodiments of the invention. Accordingly, the examples should not be construed as limiting the scope of the embodiments of the invention.

[0024]As mentioned above, online communities allow groups of people to communicate and interact via various online media, such as blogs, wikis, ...