Aggregate tag views of website information

• US 20080034279A1
• Filed: 07/21/2006
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Schachter, Joshua E., Hood, Stephen L., Kumar, Amit, Garg, Priyank S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,112,703 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A technique is provided for providing an aggregate tag view of a website that comprises a plurality of webpages that each has a corresponding URL. A tag is a set of one or more words that have been associated with a URL and is typically created by a user to describe content of the webpage corresponding to the URL. Initially, a request is received to display information pertaining to a website. In response to the request, a plurality of tags associated with the website is displayed. A first subset of the plurality of tags is associated with a particular URL. A second subset of the plurality of tags is associated with one or more URLs that are not the particular URL. Alternatively, or in addition to an aggregate tag view tag-related information for each URL of the website is provided, in response to the initial request.

Claims

1. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:

A) sending said instructions over transmission media;

B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;

C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and

D) executing the instructions;

wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of;

receiving a request to provide information pertaining to a website; and

in response to the request, providing a plurality of tags, associated with the website, to be displayed;

wherein the website comprises a plurality of webpages that correspond to a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs);

wherein a tag is a) a set of one or more words associated with a URL and b) created by a user to describe content of the webpage corresponding to the URL;

wherein a first subset of the plurality of tags are associated with a particular URL of the plurality of URLs;

wherein a second subset of the plurality of tags are associated with one or more URLs, of the plurality of URLs, that are not the particular URL.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a plurality of tags includes providing the plurality of tags only to an authorized owner of the website or to an authorized agent of said owner.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

one or more of the plurality of tags is selectable; and

selection of one of the one or more tags causes a new page to be generated that lists all the URLs of the website that have been associated with the selected tag.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a plurality of tags includes providing a count for each of the plurality of tags, wherein a particular count indicates a number of times a particular tag has been associated with one or more URLs of the plurality of URLs.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

one or more attributes of a displayed tag indicates a number of times the displayed tag has been associated with one or more URLs, of the plurality of URLs, relative to other tags of the plurality of tags; and

the one or more attributes includes one or more of the following;

font size of the displayed tag, font type of the displayed tag, and color of the displayed tag.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a plurality of tags includes providing a number of times in a certain period of time that one or more tags of the plurality of tags have been associated with one or more URLs of the plurality of URLs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of tags are based on a number of each tag, wherein the plurality of tags are associated with a subset of all URLs of the website.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a plurality of tags includes providing a chart that indicates a number of times one or more tags of the plurality of tags has been associated with one or more URLs of the plurality of URLs within a certain period of time.

9. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:

A) sending said instructions over transmission media;

B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;

C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and

D) executing the instructions;

wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of;

receiving a request to provide information pertaining to a website, wherein the website comprises a plurality of webpages that correspond to a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs); and

in response to the request, for each URL of a subset of two or more of the plurality of URLs, providing tag-related information, associated with said each URL, to be displayed;

wherein a tag is a) a set of one or more words associated with a URL and b) created by one or more users to describe content of the webpage corresponding to the URL.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein providing tag-related information includes providing the tag-related information only to an authorized owner of the website or to an authorized agent of said owner.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the tag-related information for each URL includes a number of times a particular tag has been associated with said each URL.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the tag-related information for each URL includes a number of times a particular tag has been associated with said each URL within a certain period of time.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the tag-related information for each URL includes multiple tags that have been associated with said each URL;

one or more attributes of a displayed tag indicates the number of times the displayed tag has been associated with said each URL of the subset relative to other tags associated with said each URL; and

the one or more attributes includes one or more of the following;

font size of the displayed tag, font type of the displayed tag, and color of the displayed tag.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the tag-related information for each URL includes a number of times one or more tags have been associated with said each URL within a certain period of time.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the tag-related information for each URL includes a chart that indicates a number of times one or more tags have been associated with said each URL within a certain period of time.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the tag-related information for each URL includes at least one of a first date of when the first tag was associated with said each URL and a second date of when the last tag was associated with said each URL.

17. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:

A) sending said instructions over transmission media;

B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;

C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and

D) executing the instructions;

wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of;

receiving a request to provide information pertaining to a website, wherein the website comprises a plurality of webpages that correspond to a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs);

in response to the request, providing, only to an owner of the website or an agent of the owner, a plurality of tags, associated with the website, to be displayed;

wherein a tag is a) a set of one or more words associated with a URL and b) created by a user to describe content of the webpage corresponding to the URL;

wherein a first subset of the plurality of tags are associated with a particular URL of the plurality of URLs;

wherein a second subset of the plurality of tags are associated with one or more URLs, of the plurality of URLs, that are not the particular URL;

wherein the size of each of the plurality of tags indicates the number of times the tag has been associated with one or more URLs, of the plurality of URLs, relative to other tags of the plurality of tags; and

in response to the request, for each URL of a subset of the plurality of URLs, providing tag-related information associated with said each URL.