ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,279, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Spammy app detection systems and methods" was invented by Harold Nguyen (Burlingame, Calif.), Ali Mesdaq (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Oshiro Nadir (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Anthony Lawrence Dorie (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spammy app detection system may search a database for any new social media application discovered during a recent time period. A spammy app detection algorithm can be executed on the spammy app detection system on an hourly basis to determine whether any of such applications is spammy (i.e., posting to a social media pag...