Patent Document ID: 8515896
Application ID: 13230544

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving an appeal request related to a sponsored content item that was previously determined by an intrusion detection engine to be associated with malware; in response to receiving the appeal request, re-submitting one or more landing pages associated with the sponsored content to the intrusion detection engine; receiving, from the intrusion detection engine, an intrusion score that reflects whether the landing page is still associated with malware; comparing the intrusion score to a predefined intrusion threshold; and updating an appeals database with information that specifies whether the sponsored content item is still associated with malware, based on comparing the intrusion score to the predefined intrusion threshold.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sponsored content item is from a sponsor account, and the appeal request includes an appeal request for the sponsor account.