公开(公告)号：US20240291795A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18588120

申请日：2024-02-27

Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Inventor： MANAS GAUR ,  BIPLAV SRIVASTAVA

IPC: H04L51/52 ,  G06Q50/00 ,  H04L51/21

CPC classification number: H04L51/52 ,  G06Q50/01 ,  H04L51/21

Abstract: The disclosure deals with a system and method for mediating social media platforms automatically for user safety, including in particular for automatically or semi-automatically mediating social media platforms for user safety. People meet on online platforms and discuss a variety of topics. Moderators associated with those platforms play an important role in making the platform convenient and safe to users. This disclosure addresses detecting users who can act as potential moderators of an online group of support seekers and support providers in an online social media platform operating on the Internet. Such users are classified to identify the class of supportive users and class of non-supportive users of an online group. Received suggestions and other acquired data are used to identify a potential moderator for the online group. Acquired data on supportive and non-supportive users, as well as on harmful users, is then automatically supplied to the moderator.