METHODS INVOLVING TAGGING

• US 20090259625A1
• Filed: 04/14/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kataoka, Katsuhisa
• Application Number:
  US12/102,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259625A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for tagging data content, the method comprising, receiving a tag associated with a data content having a data content identifier from a first user, associating the tag with a tag identifier, associating the tag with a user identifier of the first user, saving the tag identifier, the data content identifier, the tag, and a privacy designation associated with the tag identifier in a first table responsive to determining that the tag associated with the data content identifier is not present in the first table, and saving the user identifier and the tag identifier in a second table responsive to determining that the user identifier and the tag identifier are not present in the second table.

Claims

1. A method for tagging data content, the method comprising:

receiving a tag associated with a data content having a data content identifier from a first user;

associating the tag with a tag identifier;

associating the tag with a user identifier of the first user;

saving the tag identifier, the data content identifier, the tag, and a privacy designation associated with the tag identifier in a first table responsive to determining that the tag associated with the data content identifier is not present in the first table; and

saving the user identifier and the tag identifier in a second table responsive to determining that the user identifier and the tag identifier are not present in the second table.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the privacy designation is restricts access to the tag to a first user set.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first user set includes the first user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the privacy designation authorizes a second user set to access the tag.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the first user set only includes users having user identifiers associated with the tag.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a data content request from a first user;

displaying the requested data content and public tag associated with the document;

determining a number of private tags associated with the data content; and

displaying a visual indicator corresponding to the number of private tags associated with the data content.

5. A method for displaying a tag associated with data content comprising:

determining whether a number of user identifiers associated with a tag equals a threshold value;

designating the tag as private responsive to determining that the number of user identifiers associated with the tag is less than the threshold value;

restricting access to the tag to a first user set responsive to designating the tag as private;

designating the tag as public responsive to determining that the number of tag identifiers associated with the tag exceeds the threshold value; and

authorizing access to the tag to a second user set responsive to designating the tag as public.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a request from the first user for a private tag associated with the data content;

determining whether a user identifier of the first user is associated with the private tag; and

displaying the private tag associated with the user identifier of the first user to the first user responsive to determining that the user identifier of the first user is associated with the private tag.

9. A method for tagging data content, the method comprising:

receiving a tag hint request associated with a first data content file from a second user in a second user set;

retrieving tags associated with a plurality of data content files;

defining the retrieved tags as proposed tags;

displaying the proposed tags, wherein the proposed tags include private tags accessible to a first user set;

receiving an indication of a proposed tag selected by the second user;

associating the selected proposed tag with a data content identifier of the first data content file;

saving the selected proposed tag and the data content identifier in a first table.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises retrieving terms associated with the tags in a synonym database responsive to retrieving the tags, wherein the proposed tags further include the retrieved terms.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

associating the tag with a tag identifier;

associating the tag with a user identifier of the second user;

saving the tag identifier and a privacy designation associated with the tag identifier in the first table; and

saving the user identifier and the tag identifier in a second table responsive to determining that the user identifier and the tag identifier are not present in the second table.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the privacy designation is restricts access to the tag to a first user set.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first user set includes the second user.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the privacy designation authorizes the second user set to access the tag.