DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC INFLUENCE

Organization Name

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

Inventor(s)

Nigel Bradley of Canton GA (US)

James Pratt of Round Rock TX (US)

Eric Zavesky of Austin TX (US)

Ari Craine of Marietta GA (US)

Robert Koch of Norcross GA (US)

DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC INFLUENCE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18947027 titled 'DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC INFLUENCE

Original Abstract Submitted

The disclosed technology is generally directed towards monitoring electronic communications to detect content in a communication that is attempting to influence the user in some way. A user can specify influential intent preference data, such as which electronic communications services/applications to monitor for such influential intent content, and the types of the influential intent to monitor for, e.g., political influence types, advertisement influence types, and so on. A user also can specify remedial or other actions to take upon detection, e.g., block such content, alert on detecting such content and so on. An electronic influence manager server and/or application program can perform the monitoring and/or take the actions. Also described is reporting on the communications with influential intent, user actions with respect thereto. Reputation data can also be collected and used with respect to sources of communications with influential intent.