US Patent Issued to PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA on July 29 for "Apparatus, method and article to facilitate automatic detection and removal of fraudulent user information in a network environment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,552, issued on July 29, was assigned to PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Apparatus, method and article to facilitate automatic detection and removal of fraudulent user information in a network environment" was invented by Thomas Levi (Vancouver, Canada) and Steve Oldridge (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fraud detection system obtains a number of known fraudulent end-user profiles and/or otherwise undesirable end-user profiles. Using statistical analysis techniques that include clustering the end-user profiles by attributes and attribute values and/or combinations of attributes and attribute values, the...