METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SOCIAL NETWORKING THROUGH A CLOUD
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1. A method of social networking, the method comprising:
- displaying a user name on a web page;
receiving an input that selects the user name; and
displaying a display cloud, for the user name that is selected, that illustrates at least a subset of a personal cloud of the user associated with the user name.
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Abstract
A method of social networking is disclosed. The method displays a user name on a web page. Further, the method receives an input that selects the user name. The method displays a display cloud, for the user name that is selected, that illustrates at least a subset of a personal cloud of the user associated with the user name. Furthermore, multi-level tagging for content can be used in order to generate tag clouds.
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42 Claims
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1. A method of social networking, the method comprising:
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displaying a user name on a web page; receiving an input that selects the user name; and displaying a display cloud, for the user name that is selected, that illustrates at least a subset of a personal cloud of the user associated with the user name. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of social networking, the method comprising:
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providing a search engine that searches through a plurality of personal clouds, each of the personal clouds being displayed on a personal page and providing a visual display of tags that users have utilized to tag content; receiving one or more tags as search criteria; searching through the plurality of personal clouds for the one or more tags; and generating a set of search results based on the search. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 35)
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17. A method of interrelating content in a computer network, comprising:
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displaying a topic web page having a main topic; generating a direct tag cloud that includes a plurality of first level tags and a plurality of second level tags that have been used to tag one or more content items, wherein at least one first level tag used to tag the one or more content items includes the main topic; and displaying the direct tag cloud on the topic web page. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method of social networking, the method comprising:
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performing a search through a network for a search term; receiving search results from the search; displaying, based upon the search results, a content listing that lists content which has been tagged with the search term; and displaying, based upon the search results, a cloudmember cloud that includes a visual arrangement of user names associated with users that have utilized the search term as a tag. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A user interface for displaying content, comprising:
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a webpage item being displayed and selectable with a pointing device; and a pop-up display section that is displayed upon the webpage item being hovered over by the pointing device, the pop-up display section including at least one first tag that is displayed with high visibility, and at least one second tag that is displayed with less visibility than the at least one first tag, the at least one first tag being more relevant to the web page item than the at least one second tag. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method of social networking, the method comprising:
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performing a search through a network for a search term; receiving search results from the search; and generating a cloudmember cloud that includes a visual arrangement of user names associated with users that have utilized the search term as a tag.
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36. A method of social networking, the method comprising:
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displaying a tag on a tag cloud, the tag cloud being displayed on a website; receiving an input that selects the tag on the tag cloud; and displaying a display cloud, for the tag that is selected, that illustrates at least a subset of additional tags corresponding to the content associated to the tag.
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37. A method of referencing content on a website, comprising:
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receiving at least one first level tag and at least one second level tag to tag a content item, wherein the at least one first level tag has a higher degree of relevance to the content item than the at least one second level tag; and generating a tag cloud that displays one or more tags related to the content item, wherein at least a portion of the tags displayed in the tag cloud are at least partially weighted based on the degree of relevance of the at least one first level tag and the at least one second level tag to the content item. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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