Patent Document ID: 8601578
Application ID: 13010213

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for identifying potentially suspicious business listings for moderation, the apparatus comprising: a memory operative to store: a business listing database comprising a plurality of business listings; and a plurality of business listing configuration rules, each business listing configuration rule establishing whether a business listing is to be treated as a suspicious business listing; and a processor in communication with the memory, the processor being operative to: evaluate a selected business listing from the plurality of business listings with the plurality of business listing configuration rules; determine whether the selected business listing complies with a selected one of the plurality of business listing configuration rules, wherein: the selected business listing configuration rule comprises an authoritative source location; the authoritative source location identifies a trusted source of business information; and the processor is further operative to determine that the selected business listing does not comply with the selected business listing configuration rule when the selected business listing does not include the authoritative source location identified by the selected business listing configuration rule; identify the selected business listing as a potentially suspicious business listing when the business listing does not comply with the selected one of the plurality of the business listing configuration rules; assign the selected business listing a new business listing problem when the business listing is identified as being a potentially suspicious business listing but has not been previously assigned a business listing problem; and prioritize the selected business listing for moderation based on the assigned business listing problem to the selected business listing.

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Claim 5:
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein: the selected one of the business listing configuration rules includes a threshold; and the processor is further operative to transmit a threshold alert when a plurality of business listings having been identified as being potentially suspicious business listings exceed the threshold.