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Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024

Filed:

May. 10, 2022
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Nigel Bradley, Canton, GA (US);

Eric Zavesky, Austin, TX (US);

James Pratt, Round Rock, TX (US);

Ari Craine, Marietta, GA (US);

Robert Koch, Peachtree Corners, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04L 51/224 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 51/224 (2022.05);
Abstract

The disclosed technology is generally directed towards monitoring electronic communications to detect content in a communication that is attempting to influence the recipient 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.


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