Patent ID: 9729706
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices: receiving identifier-information from a client device of a first user, wherein the identifier-information is associated with a source of an incoming communication made to the client device of the first user; accessing a social graph of an online social network, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, the nodes comprising: a first node corresponding to the first user, and a plurality of second nodes that each correspond to a second user; determining whether one or more reporting users have flagged the source of the incoming communication as a spam source, wherein the reporting users are second users corresponding to one or more second nodes that are within a specified degree of separation from the first node; and sending, to the client device of the first user, a spam-notification object comprising information that identifies one or more of the reporting users, wherein the information that identifies the one or more reporting users comprises one or more respective profile pictures of the reporting users, the profile pictures being ordered based on social coefficients of the respective reporting users, wherein a social coefficient of a particular reporting user represents a degree of closeness between the first user and the particular reporting user.