Patent Document ID: 20160292691
Application ID: 15182296
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computing device, comprising: at least one processor; and memory storing instructions configured to instruct the at least one processor to: receive, in the computing device, a request to register an account for an entity; obtain, by the computing device and from one or more online communication sites, social data identifying a plurality of social connections between an entity and a plurality of respective third parties; identify, by the computing device, at least a subset of the social connections, wherein each third party in the subset of the social connections has a reliability rating; determine, by the computing device, a reliability rating of the entity based on the subset of the social connections to third parties having reliability ratings in the plurality of social connections of the entity; and determine, by the computing device, whether or not to register the account for the entity based on the reliability rating.