This week in patents: Facebook battles imposters and smart contacts may soon be a thing
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on February 21, 2016
at 9:14 am
This week, the US patent office issued 6,759 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the eight most interesting patents. Facebook’s imposter detection Patent Number – US 9,262,610 Facebook improves its imposter account detection system. To create connections with users, a requesting user communicates a connection request to a target user. As disclosed in the patent, Facebook compares the information associated with a requesting user’s profile (and Internet Protocol address and geodata) with user profiles of other users connected to the target…
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