Method and System for Storing, Retrieving, and Managing Data for Tags
First Claim
1. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, the method being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:
- accessing data associated with one or more entities, the entities associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein the step of accessing data associated with the one or more entities is triggered by a first event notification;
accessing data associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data associated with the one or more tags being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein the step of accessing data associated with the one or more tags is triggered by a second event notification;
linking the accessed data associated with the one or more entities together with the accessed data associated with the one or more tags using the one or more tag identifiers;
receiving at least one query or keyword search;
determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy the query or keyword search; and
ranking the determined two or more to identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers.
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Abstract
This invention relates generally to a method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags that are associated in some manner to any type of object. More particularly, the present invention writes data to these tags, reads data from these tags, and manages data that is written to and/or read from these tags. In addition, the invention accesses and/or stores data associated with tags from or into repositories, constructs and maintains data structures from these repositories and responds to queries using the data structures.
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1. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, the method being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:
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accessing data associated with one or more entities, the entities associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein the step of accessing data associated with the one or more entities is triggered by a first event notification; accessing data associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data associated with the one or more tags being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein the step of accessing data associated with the one or more tags is triggered by a second event notification; linking the accessed data associated with the one or more entities together with the accessed data associated with the one or more tags using the one or more tag identifiers; receiving at least one query or keyword search; determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy the query or keyword search; and ranking the determined two or more to identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for retrieving and organizing data that is associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers from a plurality of repositories, the system being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:
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means for retrieving the data from one or more of the repositories, wherein the data retrieval is triggered by an event notification; means for linking together at least one portion of the data that is associated with at least one of the one or more tag identifiers; and means for receiving at least one query or keyword search; means for determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy the query or keyword search; and means for ranking the determined two or more tag identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, the method being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:
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accessing data associated with one or more entities, the entities associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein the step of accessing data associated with the one or more entities is triggered by a first event notification; accessing data associated with one or more other entities, the other entities associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein the step of accessing data associated with one or more other entities is triggered by a second event notification; linking the accessed data associated with the one or more entities together with the accessed data associated with the one or more other entities using the one or more tag identifiers; receiving at least one query or at least one keyword search; determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy the query or keyword search; and ranking the determined two or more tag identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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