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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2009
Applicants:

Luke Jonathan Shepard, Palo Alto, CA (US);

William Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Todd Perry, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Lev Popov, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Luke Jonathan Shepard, Palo Alto, CA (US);

William Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Todd Perry, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Lev Popov, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/083 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A social CAPTCHA is presented to authenticate a member of the social network. The social CAPTCHA includes one or more challenge questions based on information available in the social network, such as the user's activities and/or connections in the social network. The social information selected for the social CAPTCHA may be determined based on affinity scores associated with the member's connections, so that the challenge question relates to information that the user is more likely to be familiar with. A degree of difficulty of challenge questions may be determined and used for selecting the CAPTCHA based on a degree of suspicion.


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