Patent ID: 8214897

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of detecting abnormal use of a network service caused by misinformation, comprising: determining common usage patterns for the network service and storing said common usage patterns in a memory storage device associated with a processor device; supplying, by said network service, a servlet reporting current usage patterns of said network service to a server device having programmed detector component to handle and detect anomalies; automatically monitoring, by said programmed detector component, the current usage patterns of said network service to detect abnormal usage patterns by comparing the current usage patterns with said common usage patterns; upon detecting an abnormal usage pattern, determining if the abnormal usage patterns were caused by misinformation by automatically checking for correlations between specific usage activity of users of said network service and an action level of users of a third party online discussion forum to reveal misinformation; upon determining that said online discussion forum is a source of the misinformation, responding to the source of the misinformation by posting an entry in said online discussion forum explaining the misinformation.