Patent ID: 9479516
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: hosting an application service that provides for users to enter submissions regarding a plurality of hosted applications; receiving, via the application service, a submission related to a targeted application of the plurality of hosted applications, wherein the submission expresses a review or amount of favorability of the targeted application; analyzing the submission to detect that the submission is undesirable, wherein the analysis includes aggregating a plurality of signals that indicate that the submission was not entered by a legitimate user of the targeted application, and wherein each of the plurality of signals is generated by considering the content of the submission and/or the relationship between the submission and other submissions received via the application service and/or information from the application service or a client device; and automatically imposing one or more penalties on the targeted application or user account(s) associated with the undesirable submission, wherein one or more signals out of the plurality of signals is based on a ratio that is calculated as a number of received submissions for the targeted application divided by a number of times the targeted application has been downloaded.