Patents by Inventor Hamidreza Alvari

Hamidreza Alvari has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for detecting pathogenic social media accounts without content or network structure
    Patent number: 11126679
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and methods for detecting social media designed to spread malicious information to “viral” proportions are disclosed. Historical cascade event data from preselected social media accounts as well as information from related accounts is applied to one or more causality metrics to generate a set of causality values. Causality values are further refined and analyzed to determine how casual a user is with respect to a cascade as opposed to other similar users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Elham Shaabani, Paulo Shakarian, Hamidreza Alvari, Ruocheng Guo
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING PATHOGENIC SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS WITHOUT CONTENT OR NETWORK STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20200410028
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and methods for detecting social media designed to spread malicious information to “viral” proportions are disclosed. Historical cascade event data from preselected social media accounts as well as information from related accounts is applied to one or more causality metrics to generate a set of causality values. Causality values are further refined and analyzed to determine how casual a user is with respect to a cascade as opposed to other similar users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Elham Shaabani, Paulo Shakarian, Hamidreza Alvari, Ruocheng Guo