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

Claim 9:
10. A method comprising:
accessing, by one or more hardware processors, 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; and
instantiating, by the one or more hardware processors, a corresponding thread for each node in the plurality of nodes to perform tasks related to a group detection process, wherein a first corresponding thread corresponding to a first node in the plurality of nodes comprises executable instructions configured to:
determine a first set of nodes having one degree of separation from the first node;
determine, for the first node, a first neighbor count representing a first number of nodes within the first set of nodes;
identify, from the first set of nodes, a first subset of nodes and a second subset of nodes, wherein each node in the first subset of nodes has less neighbor nodes than the first node, and wherein each node in the second subset of nodes has more neighbor nodes than the first node; and
perform a neighbor node comparison between the first node and each of the first subset of nodes, but not the second subset of nodes.