Patent Document ID: 9892280
Application ID: 14871780
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: storing a plurality of accounts that are associated with an online service, wherein each account of the plurality of accounts includes an image; storing a plurality of images; receiving, over a network, from a first client device, input that includes a first image; in response to receiving the input, determining whether the first image matches another image in the plurality of images; based on a determination that the first image matches another image in the plurality of images, determining to apply a restriction relative to the first client device; receiving, over the network, from a second client device, second input that includes a second image; in response to receiving the second input, determining whether the second image matches another image in the plurality of images; in response to determining that the second image does not match another image in the plurality of images, determining whether the second image matches an image that has not been classified as a bad image; in response to determining that the second image matches another image that has not been classified as a bad image, determining whether to evaluate a subset, of the plurality of accounts, that include the second image, wherein the subset of the plurality of accounts includes multiple accounts; in response to determining to evaluate the subset of the plurality of accounts, identifying one or more attributes of the multiple accounts, wherein an attribute of the one or more attributes pertains to the multiple accounts and is not an attribute of an individual account; based on the one or more attributes of the multiple accounts, applying one or more restrictions to a subset of the multiple accounts; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.