Methods, Systems, and Articles of Manufacture for Distribution of Search Metadata

• US 20090254533A1
• Filed: 04/02/2008
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Garbow, Zachary A., Paterson, Kevin G.
• Application Number:
  US12/060,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254533A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention are generally related to metadata describing users accessing a network and network content. Each user may have a user profile comprising a list of user tags describing the user. Each item of network content may include a list of content tags describing the item. When a user selects an item of network content, one or more tags from the user profile may be added to the list of content tags for the item. In some embodiments, one or more tags from the list of content tags may be added to the user profile. Therefore, over time and access by multiple users, a comprehensive list of tags describing user profiles and network content may be developed.

Claims

1. A method for describing content on a network, comprising:

providing one or more items of network content to a user having a user profile comprising a list of user tags describing the user, wherein each item of network content has a list of content tags describing the item;

receiving an indication of selection of an item of the one or more items of network content provided; and

in response to receiving the indication of selection, adding one or more user tags from the user profile to the list of content tags for the selected item.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the one or more items of network content to the user in response to receiving a query from the user, wherein the one or more items provided are retrieved based on the query.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to receiving the indication of selection, adding one or more content tags from the list of content tags to the list of user tags.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the list of content tags and the list of user tags each comprise one or more inherent tags, wherein the inherent tags comprise tags included at a time of creation of respective content and user profile.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising converting an inherent tag to an inherited tag based on a correlation between the inherent tag and one of the user profile and network content, wherein the inherited tags comprise one of the added one or more user tags and the added one or more content tags.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising converting an inherited tag to an inherent tag based on a correlation of the inherited tag to one of the user profile and network content.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein adding one or more user tags from the user profile to the list of content tags for the selected item comprises adding the inherent tags of the user profile to the list of content tags.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein adding one or more content tags from the list of content tags to the list of user tags comprises adding the inherent tags of the selected item to the list of user tags.

9. A computer readable storage medium comprising a program product which, when executed by a processor, is configured to perform an operation for describing content on a network, comprising:

providing one or more items of network content to a user having a user profile comprising a list of user tags describing the user, wherein each item of network content has a list of content tags describing the item;

receiving an indication of selection of an item of the one or more items of network content provided; and

in response to receiving the indication of selection, adding one or more user tags from the user profile to the list of content tags for the selected item.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the operation further comprises providing the one or more items of network content to the user in response to receiving a query from the user, wherein the one or more items provided are retrieved based on the query.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the operation further comprises, in response to receiving the indication of selection, adding one or more content tags from the list of content tags to the list of user tags.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the list of content tags and the list of user tags each comprise one or more inherent tags, wherein the inherent tags comprise tags included at a time of creation of respective content and user profile.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, the operation further comprising converting an inherent tag to an inherited tag based on a correlation between the inherent tag and one of the user profile and network content, wherein the inherited tags comprise one of the added one or more user tags and the added one or more content tags.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, the operation further comprising converting an inherited tag to an inherent tag based on a correlation of the inherited tag to one of the user profile and network content.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein adding one or more user tags from the user profile to the list of content tags for the selected item comprises adding the inherent tags of the user profile to the list of content tags.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein adding one or more content tags from the list of content tags to the list of user tags comprises adding the inherent tags of the selected item to the list of user tags.

17. A system, comprising:

memory comprising;

one or more user profiles, wherein each user profile comprises a list of user tags describing a user;

one or more content profiles, wherein each content profile comprises a list of content tags describing an item of content available on a network; and

a program configured to alter the user tags and content tags to more accurately describe users and the content; and

a processor communicably coupled with the memory which, when executing the program, is configured to;

provide one or more items of network content to a user;

receive an indication of selection of an item of the one or more items of network content provided; and

in response to receiving the indication of selection, add one or more user tags from a user profile associated with the user to the list of content tags for the selected item.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the one or more items of network content to the user in response to receiving a query from the user, wherein the one or more items provided are retrieved based on the query.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to add one or more content tags from the list of content tags to the list of user tags of the user'"'"'s user profile.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the list of content tags and the list of user tags each comprise one or more inherent tags, wherein the inherent tags comprise tags included at a time of creation of respective content and user profile.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the processor is further configured to convert an inherent tag to an inherited tag based on a correlation between the inherent tag and one of the user profile and network content, wherein the inherited tags comprise one of the added one or more user tags and the added one or more content tags.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to convert an inherited tag to an inherent tag based on a correlation of the inherited tag to one of the user profile and network content.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to add the inherent tags of the user profile to the list of content tags in response to receiving the indication of selection.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to add the inherent tags of the selected item to the list of user tags in response to receiving the indication of selection.