Patent ID: 9614797
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G10L,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for filtering messages of a social network, the method comprising: one or more processors identifying a set of languages included in a settings file of a first user of a social network, the set of languages includes a first language corresponding to a country associated with the first user; one or more processors identifying a language used to compose a message that is sent or received by the first user of the social network, by accessing a language library and using word content of the language library to identify the language used to compose the message; one or more processors determining whether the identified language use to compose the message that is sent or received by the first user of the social network is included in the set of languages of the settings file of the first user; in response to determining that the identified language used to compose the message that is sent or received by the first user is not included in the set of languages of the settings file of the first user, one or more processors prompting the first user to indicate whether the identified language is to be added to the set of languages of the settings file of the first user; in response to receiving a confirmation from the first user to add the identified language to the set of languages of the first user, one or more processors adding the identified language to the set of languages of the first user; and in response to a denial by the first user to add the identified language to the set of languages of the first user, one or more processors filtering messages composed in the identified language that are directed to the first user from the social network wherein the messages that are filtered are blocked from display to the first user.