US 12,355,811 B2
System and method for social network analysis
Alex Smith, Chadron, NE (US); Andras Benke, Bellevue, WA (US); Jonathan R Dodson, San Francisco, CA (US); Jeffrey Fenchel, San Francisco, CA (US); Loretta Jimenez, San Francisco, CA (US); Michael Kramer, San Francisco, CA (US); Fabien Vives, San Francisco, CA (US); Adam Beaugh, Kensington, CA (US); Felix Medina Wong, Fremont, CA (US); Melinda Chu, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Miller, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ali Zafarani, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to ZIGNAL LABS, INC.
Filed by ZIGNAL LABS, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/736,111.
Application 17/736,111 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/452,640, filed on Jun. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,356,476.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/689,889, filed on Jun. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0360604 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01)
CPC H04L 63/1483 (2013.01) [G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for detecting an interactive network of a plurality of automated accounts posting to a social media channel, wherein each automated account is operated by at least one social media account computational device, the system comprising: an ingestion computational device comprising a first memory for storing a plurality of first instructions and a first processor for executing said first instructions, wherein said first instructions include instructions for:
connecting to the social media channel; and
receiving a plurality of social media postings from a plurality of social media accounts;
the system further comprising an analysis computational device comprising a second memory for storing a plurality of second instructions and a second processor for executing said second instructions, wherein said second instructions include instructions for:
analyzing said social media postings according to interactions between said social media accounts; and
determining which of said posting entities are in a community according to said analyzing;
and a computer network for communication between said computational devices;
wherein said ingestion engine obtains social media messages for a plurality of social media accounts, said ingestion computational device transmitting said social media messages to said analysis computational device; and
wherein said analyzing said interactions is performed according to an algorithm selected from the group consisting of: page rank variations, Louvain community detection, K-core Decomposition for virality measurement, Triangle Count, Heuristic rules, Story-level features, Author features and Graph-level features.