Tagging of facet elements in a facet tree

• US 7,502,810 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2005
• Issued: 03/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Handy-Bosma, John Hans, Hawley, J. Christopher, Lee, Raymond, Ceste, Mario Gerald Jr., Roy, Matthew Norman, Acevedo-Aviles, Joel C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vital; Pierre M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nofal; Christopher P
• Application Number:
  US11/136,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20060271565A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,386 Days
• Field of Search: 707/4, 707/10, 707/102, 707/104.1, 715/513, 715/500, 715/201, 715/205, 706/20
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24564 Applying rules; Deductive queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/322 Trees
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A tagging application (TA) comprising a web interface program (WIP) and a tagging program (TP). The WIP presents the facet tree by displaying user selected elements of the facet tree along with an activation method for selecting a facet element and assigning a value to the selected facet or facet element. Facets and facet elements are tagged by selecting a value representing the facet element. Facets and facet elements are eliminated by choosing and applying a tagging scenario. After selecting a tagging scenario, and indicating that it is to be applied to the facet element, the TP takes the selected value and applies the selected tagging scenario to populate the tagging for the user in accordance with the tagging scenario. Once the tagging is populated, the TP returns the tagged facet tree to the user. Explanatory notes may be provided to the user with the tagged tree.

Claims

1. A method for returning a tagged facet tree to an end user who is only authorized to access an authorized portion of the facet tree, comprising:

receiving, at a server computer, a facet tree from a facet tree database;

acquiring, from a rules database connected to the server, a first rule for the facet tree, and a second rule for a plurality of tagging scenarios based on a characteristic of the end user;

applying the first rule to the facet tree before presentation to the end user on a user interface such that only the authorized portion of the facet tree is displayed to the end user, and applying the second rule to the plurality of tagging scenarios such that only a tagging scenario that is applicable to the characteristic of the end user is displayed to the end user;

making the tagging scenario available to the end user at a user interface connected to the server;

responsive to the end user indicating that the tagging scenario is to be applied to the authorized portion of the facet tree, applying the tagging scenario to populate the tagging of elements in the facet tree for the end user in accordance with the tagging scenario;

when the tagging has been populated, returning the tagged facet tree to the end user at the user interface;

wherein the end user validates or invalidates the tagged facet tree;

wherein a facet tree is a categorization scheme for a plurality of hierarchically structured data and content records where a plurality of facets and a plurality of facet elements of the facet tree guide a search; and

wherein tagging means assigning a value to a word or a data record to select the word as a facet or a facet element, linking the facet or facet element to another to facet or facet element, or linking a data record to a facet element.