Patent Document ID: 9426170
Application ID: 14056624
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying a status for each node of a set of preselected nodes in a social network graph, the status indicating whether a node has been infected with information from a negative campaign; identifying a source and a flow of the negative campaign based on the status of the nodes from the set of preselected nodes and a topology of the social network graph; computing a susceptibility score for one or more nodes of the social network graph, the susceptibility score computed using a measure of vulnerability of nodes that have not received the information based on the flow of the negative campaign, and a measure of reachability of nodes from the source; generating a discounted susceptibility score for the one or more nodes by reducing the computed susceptibility score based on a decay rate for the one or more nodes; identifying nodes susceptible to adopting and spreading the information from the negative campaign based on the discounted susceptibility score; and transmitting alternative information from a positive campaign to the identified nodes to prevent the adoption and spreading of the information from the negative campaign by the identified nodes.