ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,921, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Reactive viral spam detection" was invented by Anirban Biswas (Bangalore, India), Sumit Srivastava (Bangalore, India), Srinivasa Madhava Phaneendra Angara (Bengaluru, India) and Nishka Krishnappa Saligrama (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques herein balance the need for flexibility with the need accuracy, using a reactive approach to viral spam detection. After content (e.g., a social media platform news feed or timeline post) is created, interaction activity (e.g., content views) with the content is monitored. Based o...