Collaborative Automated Structured Tagging

• US 20110125758A1
• Filed: 11/23/2009
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Renger, Bernard S., Basso, Andrea
• Application Number:
  US12/623,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20110125758A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

A collaborative automated structured tagging method, apparatus, and computer readable medium generate tags for an asset based on context items and the content of the asset. The tags are then ranked and stored until requested by a user or system. Users viewing the asset and the ranked tags can select tags indicating that the tags correctly define the asset. Users can also enter new tags for assets. The user input is then used to re-rank the tags associated with the particular asset.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for collaborative automated structured tagging comprising the steps of:

identifying context items associated with an asset;

generating context item tags based on identified context items associated with the asset;

analyzing the asset to determine asset content;

generating asset content tags based on determined asset content;

ranking generated context item tags and asset content tags; and

storing ranked tags associated with the asset.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

presenting ranked tags associated with an asset to a user;

receiving input from the user representing tagging information related to the asset; and

re-ranking tags associated with the asset based on the user input and previous tag rankings associated with the asset.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the input from a user representing tagging information is user selection of at least one tag associated with the asset.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the input from a user representing tagging information is at least one tag entered by the user.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein re-ranking tags associated with the asset based on the user input and previous tag rankings associated with the asset is performed using statistical analysis.

6. An apparatus for collaborative automated structured tagging comprising:

means for identifying context items associated with an asset;

means for generating context item tags based on identified context items associated with the asset;

means for analyzing the asset to determine asset content;

means for generating asset content tags based on determined asset content;

means for ranking generated context item tags and asset content tags; and

means for storing ranked tags associated with the asset.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 further comprising:

means for presenting tags associated with an asset to a user;

means for receiving input from a user representing tagging information related to the asset; and

means for re-ranking tags associated with the asset based on the user input and previous tag rankings associated with the asset.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the input from a user representing tagging information is user selection of at least one tag associated with the asset.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the input from a user representing tagging information is at least one tag entered by the user.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein re-ranking tags associated with the asset based on the user input and previous tag rankings associated with the asset is performed using statistical analysis.

11. A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for collaborative automated structured tagging, the computer executable instructions defining steps comprising:

identifying context items associated with an asset;

generating context item tags based on identified context items associated with the asset;

analyzing the asset to determine asset content;

generating asset content tags based on determined asset content;

ranking generated context item tags and asset content tags; and

storing ranked tags associated with the asset.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising computer executable instructions defining the steps of:

presenting ranked tags associated with an asset to a user;

receiving input from the user representing tagging information related to the asset; and

re-ranking tags associated with the asset based on the user input and previous tag rankings associated with the asset.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein the input from a user representing tagging information is user selection of at least one tag associated with the asset.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein the input from a user representing tagging information is at least one tag entered by the user.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein re-ranking tags associated with the asset based on the user input and previous tag rankings associated with the asset is performed using statistical analysis.