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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mengdie Hu, Atlanta, GA (US);

Jalal U. Mahmud, San Jose, CA (US);

Aditya Pal, San Jose, CA (US);

Huahai Yang, San Jose, CA (US);

Michelle X. Zhou, Saratoga, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2145 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to assessing characteristics of a message and a message recipient. A trust model is established to take into account a set of trust antecedents, including characteristics of the messages and properties of the recipients, a set of action motivations, and their contribution to the action-based trust measurement. The assessment(s) is utilized to produce a tangible trust measurement that is employed to gauge the recipient's perception of credibility towards the received message.


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