Content developer abuse detection

摘要

A server that manages download and/or distribution of content may collect content-related information associated with users, and classify the users based on that data. The content-related information may comprise data relating to content generation and/or upload by the users. The server may determine whether a user is granted permission to upload content for distribution or download via the server, based on correlating the user with a previously classified user, and/or on evaluation of current content generation or download activities associated with the user. Determination of whether the user is granted permission to upload content may be done directly and/or autonomously by the server. Alternatively, a recommendation whether to grant permission to upload content may be submitted by the server to another entity for selection thereby. The server may reject or accept a content upload request from the user based on the determination of whether the user is granted permission.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, via a server system, a request from a user, associated with a user account, to upload content to the server system; identifying, via the upload request, information associated with the user account; comparing, via the server system, the information associated with the user account to information associated with previously identified user accounts; identifying, via the server system, and based on the comparing, the user account as a banned account if a threshold amount of the information associated with the user account matches information associated with a previously identified banned account, wherein, if the user account is identified as a banned account, then the request to upload content is denied, and if the user account is not identified as a banned account, then the method further comprises:
obtaining by a server system, content-related information associated with the user, wherein the content-related information comprises data relating to at least one of content generation or upload activities by the user, and wherein at least a portion of the content-related information is different than the information associated with the user account;identifying, via the server system, whether the user is granted permission to upload content for distribution or download, via the server system, the identifying comprising:
correlating the at least one of content generation or upload activities by the user with at least one of content generation or upload activities performed by a plurality of previously classified users that have previously provided content and are different than the user, andrejecting or accepting, via the server system, a content upload request received from the user based on the identifying whether the user is granted permission to upload content.