CHARACTERISTIC TAGGING

• US 20100287197A1
• Filed: 07/20/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kishore, Ajitesh, Wang, Esther Hsiu-Meng
• Granted Patent: US 8,024,312 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Embodiments are provided to enable a user to easily and conveniently assign, share, and/or locate characteristic and other information associated with others. In an embodiment, a user can assign, share, and use one or more characterizing tags. A user can use the one or more characterizing tags to characterize a person of interest and/or a relationship or association between the user and the person of interest. A user can also perform searches using one or more characterizing tags to locate others who may be associated with the one or more characterizing tags. Users can also view user profiles including any characterizing tags and/or communicate with others based in part on a characterizing tag. The various embodiments provide a forum for social tagging, allowing a user to apply and use one or more characterizing tags that are associated with a person of interest.

Claims

1. A computing user interface comprising:

an interactive display configured to;

identify a person of interest to associate with a tag;

present one or more recommended tags based in part on information collected from electronic communications with the person of interest;

assign a characteristic tag for the person of interest according to a personal perception of a tagger; and

present other users and any common tags.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to add tags for other persons of interest by selecting another person of interest to tag with a common or a different tag.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to enable selection of a recommended tag to tag the person of interest.

4. The user interface of claim 1 implemented as part of a web-based application.

5. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the characteristic tag includes metadata associated with an object that represents the person of interest.

6. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to locate a contact based in part on a search for characteristic tag.

7. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to present a profile of a contact including any associated characteristic tags.

8. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the characteristic tag corresponds to something that concerns, involves, draws the attention of, or arouses the curiosity of the person of interest.

9. The user interface of claim 8, wherein the characteristic tag refers to particular aspects of life, culture, or society.

10. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to present one or more words of a prior communication with the person of interest as recommended characteristic tags.

11. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to provide profile information associated with a search result including any other characteristic tags.

12. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to provide a search result including a number of external contacts associated with one or more tags.

13. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the interactive display is further configured to block one or more people from being tagged.

14. A method comprising:

recommending a number of characteristic tags associated with a person of interest as part of a tagging operation;

applying a select characteristic tag to the person of interest;

identifying other users that share a common characteristic tag; and

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storing the select characteristic tag.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising displaying tag information including information of other users that share common characteristic tags.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising recommending one or more tags based in part on collected nouns and phrases.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising notifying the person of interest of a tag event.

18. A device comprising:

a processor, memory, and a display configured to;

identify a person of interest to associate with a tag;

present one or more recommended tags based in part on information collected from electronic communications with the person of interest;

associate a characteristic tag with the person of interest; and

present other user information including any associated common tags.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the processor, memory, and display resources are further configured to provide one or more persons of interests based in part on a characteristic tag search.

20. The device of claim 18, further comprising a client computing device in communication with a serving computing device.