Patent ID: 9563770
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A spammer group extraction method, comprising: collecting pieces of data corresponding to social network services; preprocessing the pieces of data; detecting abnormal behavior based on user identifications (IDs) respectively corresponding to pieces of data, preprocessing of which has been completed; analyzing characteristics of individual IDs and connection characteristics between IDs using user IDs and IDs of a user group including the user IDs; and extracting and displaying, based on the analysis, a spammer group using the user IDs causing the abnormal behavior and the IDs of a user group including the user IDs, wherein preprocessing the pieces of data comprises performing one or more procedures of a set of procedures consisting of: a procedure for extracting keywords from the pieces of data, a procedure for sorting the pieces of data using extracted keywords, a procedure for extracting keywords associated with respective pieces of data of the pieces of data, and a procedure for identifying characteristics of messages corresponding to the pieces of data.