Patent ID: 9154491
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a processor to perform operations comprising: establishing a broadcast account for a user of an internet-based broadcasting system, wherein the internet-based broadcasting system is a portion of/included within a social network; assigning an initial trust level to the broadcast account, wherein the initial trust level is chosen from a plurality of predefined trust levels, the predefined trust levels including a trust level associated with restricted broadcast privileges and a trust level associated with full broadcast privileges; determining a trust score for the broadcast account, wherein the trust score is based, at least in part, upon monitoring content broadcast by the user to identify copyright-infringing content included within the content broadcast by the user by comparing copyrighted content to the content broadcast by the user and one or more activities of the user, the one or more activities including a number of broadcasts that the user has made; and adjusting the initial trust level based, at least in part, upon the trust score, wherein adjusting the initial trust level includes: