Patent Document ID: 8978133
Application ID: 13867529

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a report from a target user of a social networking system identifying malicious activity performed on the social networking system and identifying an object maintained by the social networking system associated with the malicious activity; identifying objects connected to the target user through the social networking system and disabled by the social networking system; retrieving information describing a type of remedial action taken by the social networking system to disable one or more of the identified objects connected to the target user; calculating, by a computer processor, a disabled connectivity score for the target user based at least in part on the retrieved information, the disabled connectivity score indicating a trustworthiness of the report from the target user; and performing an action affecting the object identified by the report based on the calculated disabled connectivity score.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the action is selected from a group consisting of: restricting access to information stored on the social networking system by the object identified by the report, deleting the object identified by the report, restricting access to the object associated with the report, and any combination thereof.