Method and apparatus for tagging data

• US 20070124208A1
• Filed: 10/25/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Schachter, Joshua, Wenger, Albert
• Application Number:
  US11/586,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20070124208A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management

Abstract

A system is provided that permits the use of classification information that can be interpreted by a computer system. To this end, a system and method may be provided for creating classification information that may be interpreted by a computer system. Such classification information may be associated with content, and permit a computer system to process the content based on the classification information. In one example, classification information may be associated by a user, system, or process with a portion of content, and a computer system processes the content based on the classification information. For instance, the classification information may cause content to be processed in a particular way, presented to a user by a particular application program, cause the content to be forwarded to a particular user, or otherwise influence how the content is handled.

Claims

1. A method for processing content in a distributed computer system, the method comprising acts of:

collecting classification data in the distributed computer system, wherein at least one portion of the classification data includes a classification of content; and

processing the content based on the classification of content.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising an act of generating, by a computer system, the classification of content.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising an act of generating, by a user, the classification of content.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the act of processing further comprises an act of processing, by a computer system, the content based on the classification of content.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising an act of inspecting the classification of content and performing an action based on the classification.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the action is performed responsive to a user entering the classification data into a social bookmarking system.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the act of collecting classification data further comprises an act of collecting one or more tags.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the act of collecting the classification data further comprising an act of determining a classification performed through a user action.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the act of determining includes determining whether the user associated the content with a particular classification.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein one or more tags include one or more keywords that describe the content.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the act of collecting the one or more tags further comprises an act of collecting the one or more tags by a collaborative computer system operated by the plurality of users.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the act of collecting classification data is performed by a plurality of computer systems.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the classification data is shared among a plurality of computer systems.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content is referenced by reference data, and wherein the act of collecting includes an act of associating the classification data with the reference data.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the reference data includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the classification data is shared among a plurality of application programs.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the classification data is shared among a plurality of users.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the classification data is shared among a plurality of computer systems.

19. The method according to claim 1, further comprising an act of storing the classification data in the distributed computer system.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the classification data is shared among at least one of a plurality of computer systems, a plurality of users, and a plurality of programs.

21. The method according to claim 7, wherein at least one of the one or more tags comprises a plurality of parameters.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein at least one parameter of the at least one tag indicates a tag type.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein at least one other parameter of the at least one tag indicates a tag subtype associated with the tag type.

24. The method according to claim 22, wherein at least one other parameter of the at least one tag indicates a value associated with the tag type.

25. The method according to claim 24, further comprising an act of performing an action associated with the content based on the tag type.

26. The method according to claim 25, further comprising an act of performing an action associated with the content based on the tag value.

27. The method according to claim 25, wherein the act of performing an action is performed by a computer system.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein the act of performing an action is performed by a computer system associated with a social bookmarking system.

29. The method according to claim 27, wherein the act of performing an action is performed by a software program adapted to process tag information.