US 11,741,177 B2
Entity validation of a content originator
Shikhar Kwatra, San Jose, CA (US); Jeremy R. Fox, Georgetown, TX (US); Raghuveer Prasad Nagar, Kota (IN); and Sidharth Ullal, Chennai (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/249,484.
Prior Publication US 2022/0284069 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/9536 (2019.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 16/908 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9536 (2019.01) [G06F 16/908 (2019.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01); H04L 63/126 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying a content post in a public forum viewable by a plurality of users, wherein an entity representing a user of the public forum claims to be an originator of the content post;
responsive to gathering metadata for the content post, determining, utilizing natural language processing and a classification algorithm, a topic for the content post based on a plurality of extracted words from the content post;
identifying a plurality of similar content posts relative to the content post based on the topic and the entity, wherein the entity representing the user of the public forum claims to be the originator of the plurality of similar content posts;
determining a score for the entity claiming to be the originator of the content post that represents a likelihood that the entity is the originator of the content post based on a comparison of the metadata for the content post to associated metadata for the plurality of similar content posts, wherein the score being below a verification threshold indicates the entity is not the originator of the content post and the score being at or above the verification threshold indicates the entity is the originator of the content;
determining the score is below the verification threshold value indicating the entity is not the originator of the content post;
responsive to determining the score is below the verification threshold value, establishing an iterative model to update a rolling baseline for an overall sentiment, the topic, sentence structure and grammar patterns, language usage, and the associated metadata for the plurality of similar content posts, wherein the iterative model is utilized for determining a subsequent score fora subsequent entity claiming to be the originator of a subsequent content post on the topic; and
performing one or more ameliorative actions on the content post, wherein the one or more ameliorative actions indicate to the plurality of the users viewing the content post in the public forum that the entity representing the user of the public forum that claims to be the originator was not verified.