Patent ID: 9544272
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. At least one non-transitory machine accessible storage medium having code stored thereon, the code when executed on a machine, cause the machine to: access received data packets associated with a particular communication from a particular source on a network; parse the data packets to identify image data included in the particular communication; determine similarities between the image data of the particular communication and content of a plurality of other communications from a plurality of other sources, wherein the determining similarities comprises determining whether images similar to the image data are included in content of one or more of the other communications, and some of the plurality of other sources have reputable source reputation scores and some of the plurality of other sources have non-reputable source reputation scores; determine a source reputation score for the particular source, wherein the source reputation score comprises a respective category score of the particular source in a plurality of categories, the plurality of categories comprises a spam category, the source reputation score is calculated based at least in part on determined similarities between the image data and the content of the plurality of other communications, and the source reputation score for the particular source is determined based on both the reputable source reputation scores and the non-reputable source reputation scores in the source reputation scores of the plurality of sources; and cause the particular communication to be processed based on the reputation score for the particular source.