Patent ID: 9069945
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for generating at least a score for validating a user associated with one or more social networks, comprising: providing, by a processor, a validation platform associated with said one or more social networks, said validation platform implemented on a computer system comprising one or more processors; receiving a query from a requesting party by said validation platform through an interface for validating said user, wherein said query comprises a search criteria for identifying said user and a request for one validation score of said user, and wherein said requested validation score comprises at least one of an evaluation score, a feedback authentication score, a user authentication score, and a composite score, by a query processing module; receiving differential weights from said requesting party by said validation platform for generating said composite score, wherein said received differential weights comprise differential weights for one or more of said evaluation score, said feedback authentication score, and said user authentication score, and wherein sum of one or more of said differential weights equals 100%, by said query processing module; searching and identifying said user for said validation from said one or more social networks by said validation platform based on said criteria, by a user identification module; retrieving social information of said identified user from said one or more social networks by said validation platform, wherein said social information comprises relationship information of and between said identified user and social contacts of said identified user on said one or more social networks, wherein said social contacts are associated with said one or more social networks, by an information retrieval module; receiving feedback on said identified user from one or more of said social contacts by said validation platform, by a feedback acquisition module; generating one or more of said evaluation score, said feedback authentication score, and said user authentication score for said identified user by said validation platform based on one or more of said retrieved social information and said received feedback, by a score generation module; and generating a composite score for said identified user by said validation platform, by said score generation module, wherein said composite score is a weighted sum of said evaluation score said feedback authentication score, and said user authentication score, whereby said generated validation score enables said validation of said user associated with said one or more social networks.