Google Gets Social Network Impersonation Detection Patent

[Guest]

Google has received a patent for a technology that automatically detects impersonation of individuals on social networks.

Google Gets Social Network Impersonation Detection Patent : Read more

 

[cryogenic]

If it's online then Google already knows, who you are, what you do, what you eat, what cars you like/have, whom you did last week .... no point in patenting this.

 

[master_chen]

Won't fly.

 

[isoomega]

Impersonate this! "Flip the bird"

Joke aside, good for anti-bullying ........ bad for not making fun of others

 

[L0tus]

I'm seriously trying to understand why this story is newsworthy.Aren't there myriads of similarly pointless patents around? Did Toms just pick a random patent on a list & decide to expand no it?

 

[aoneone]

My uppa lip smells ^_^

 

[freggo]

Any halfway decent site that has a membership database has some amount of code to check for duplicates and certain other things.
But getting a patent for something like that...that should not even be possible.

We are slowly getting to the point where you have to have a lawyer sitting next to each coder to make sure the next IF...THEN statement does not infringe on someone's patent !

 

[eddieroolz]

Google does not deserve this patent. Many sites have been doing this for years.