CUSTOMIZING A TAG CLOUD

• US 20130227484A1
• Filed: 04/10/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bastide, Paul R., Broomhall, Matthew E., Loredo, Robert E., Rosno, Matthew S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,725,610 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/821
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for customizing a tag cloud includes assigning a score to each tag in a source of tags, the score being based on a tag attribute; temporarily increasing the score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of the new tag; and customizing said tag cloud in a graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score.

Claims

1. A method for customizing a tag cloud, comprising:

assigning a score to each tag in a source of tags, said score being based on a tag attribute;

temporarily increasing said score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of said new tag; and

customizing said tag cloud in a graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein customizing said tag cloud in said graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score includes displaying said tags with a font size proportional to said score.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said tag attribute is selected from a group consisting of tag popularity and tag frequency.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein customizing said tag cloud in said graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score includes emphasizing each tag with a single dimension of emphasis.

5. The method of claim 4, where said single dimension of emphasis is selected from a group of increasing a font size, increasing a font weight, darkening a font color, modifying a font color, modifying a background color, and modifying a location of a tag.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said source of tags is selected from a group consisting of online resources, blogs, reviews, websites, applications, and combinations thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein temporarily increasing said score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of said new tag includes leaving said scores of tags that fall outside of said time period unaltered.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein temporarily increasing said score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of said new tag includes adjusting said score when said time period of said new tag expires so that said score reverts to what said score would have been without temporarily increasing said score.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein temporarily increasing said score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of said new tag includes increasing said score enough such that said new tag comprises an increased new score higher than a median score of said tags.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein temporarily increasing said score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of said new tag includes that said time period is of a set duration.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein temporarily increasing said score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of said new tag includes that said time period is modified by a user'"'"'s activity.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said time period that is modified by said user'"'"'s activity includes factoring in a time between when a user views said tag cloud and said creation of said new tag.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said time period that is modified by said user'"'"'s activity includes ending said time period when a user interacts with said new tag.

14. A computer implemented process for customizing a tag cloud, comprising:

identifying a source of tags;

assigning a score to each tag in said source based on characteristics of said tags;

identifying a new tag or new instance of a tag within said source;

temporarily increasing said score for said new tag or new instance of a tag; and

customizing a display of said tag cloud in a graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score.

15. The process of claim 14, wherein temporarily increasing said score for said new tag or new instance of a tag includes temporarily increasing said score for a fixed time period.

16. The process of claim 14, wherein temporarily increasing said score for said new tag or new instance of a tag includes increasing said score until a user interacts with said new tag.