Patent ID: 11899721
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
accessing a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of nodes, wherein each node in the plurality of nodes represents a user account with a service provider;
instantiating a plurality of threads for performing tasks related to a group detection process based on the plurality of nodes, wherein each thread in the plurality of threads corresponds to a distinct node in the plurality of nodes, and wherein each thread in the plurality of threads includes stored executable instructions configured to perform the tasks based on a corresponding node in the plurality of nodes;
determining, by a first thread from the plurality of threads that corresponds to a first node in the plurality of nodes, a first neighbor count representing a number of neighbor nodes having one degree of separation from the first node within the graph;
obtaining, by the first thread, a plurality of neighbor counts from a set of threads corresponding to the neighbor nodes of the first node;
determining, by the first thread for the first node, a first subset of the neighbor nodes having first neighbor counts more than the first neighbor count and a second subset of the neighbor nodes having second neighbor counts less than the first neighbor count;
generating, by the first thread, a first list comprising a first identity of the first node and identities of the neighbor nodes of the first node; and
transmitting, by the first thread, the first list to a first subset of the set of threads corresponding to the first subset of the neighbor nodes, but not a second subset of the set of threads corresponding to the second subset of the neighbor nodes.