US Patent Issued to PayPal on Sept. 23 for "Graph computing for electronic communication risk detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,704, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graph computing for electronic communication risk detection" was invented by Lance Lian (Suzhou, China), Haoran Zhang (Shanghai), Jiaxin Fang (Shanghai), Junshi Guo (Shanghai), Pengshan Zhang (Shanghai), Xia Zhang (Shanghai) and Yu Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for detecting risk via a server system that receives, based on user activity at a device, an indication of a trigger event corresponding to a potential electronic communication. After receiving the trigger event indication and prior to receiving an indication of...