Patent ID: 9595057
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device associated with a social-networking system from a second computing device associated with a first user of the social-networking system, a first request to verify a claimed identity of a merchant, the social-networking system maintaining information relating to one or more social connections of the first user with additional users of the social-networking system; sending, by the first computing device to a third computing device associated with the merchant, a second request for information about the merchant; receiving, at the first computing device from the third computing device, the information about the merchant; determining, by the first computing device, a confidence score indicating a confidence level of the claimed identity of the merchant, based at least in part on the information received from the third computing device and information available to the social-networking system; and sending, by the first computing device to the second computing device associated with the user, the confidence score for verifying the claimed identity of the merchant.