Consolidating local and remote taxonomies

• US 7,930,629 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2005
• Issued: 04/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hurst-Hiller, Oliver, Kim, Jane T., Torres, Michael I.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CHAU T
• Application Number:
  US11/300,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20070016575A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,952 Days
• Field of Search: 709/230, 709/203, 709/248, 709/249, 715/200, 715/234, 715/203
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data

Abstract

A tag management system that enables consolidation, aggregation and/or synchronization of tags between local and remote sources. Further, the system provides users with a single rich view of client and Internet data related to appropriate tagging schemes. The system allows users to import and export tags and taxonomies from online service providers and provides a central location for users to store their tags. The central location is accessible to the user both on the client and for use online.

Claims

1. A computerized system that facilitates tag management, comprising:

a processing unit; and

a memory for storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processing unit executes;

a tag locator component that searches for a tag located in a remote source associated with a particular user or a content type; and

a tag manager component of a local source that facilitates maintaining the tag from the remote source, wherein the tag manager component

(1) consolidates the tag from the remote source with a plurality of disparate tags maintained in the local source to form a set of tags, and

(2) synchronizes the set of tags containing at least the tag from the remote source and the plurality of disparate tags from the local source to harmonize the tag from the remote source with the plurality of disparate tags from the local source, the synchronized set of tags being communicated to the local source and the remote source.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a query component that identifies the tag based upon a criterion.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the tag manager component exports a plurality of tags from the local source to the remote source based at least in part upon the criterion.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the tag manager component imports a plurality of tags from the remote source to the local source based at least in part upon the criterion.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the criterion is at least one of an alphanumeric string, a location, and a type.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the local source is a client data store and the remote source is an Internet data sharing application.

7. A computerized system for aggregating data objects, comprising:

an external data source that includes a data object associated with a first tag;

a client component that includes a client data object associated with a second tag;

one or more processing units; and

one or more memory for storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by the one or more processing unit executes;

a search component that searches the external data source and the client component and retrieves the data object and the client data object based at least in part on the first tag and the second tag;

a tag manager component that consolidates one or more first tags from the external data source and one or more second tags from the client component to form a set of tags and that synchronizes the set of tags between the client component and the external data source to harmonize the one or more first tags from the external data source with the one or more second tags from the client component, the synchronized set of tags being communicated to the client component and the external data source;

a rendering component that delivers the retrieved data object and the retrieved client data object; and

a displaying component that displays the synchronized set of tags.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the rendering component displays a representation of the retrieved data object and the retrieved client data object.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the external data source is an Internet-based data sharing application.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the search component utilizes a standing query based at least in part on the first tag or the second tag.

11. One or more computer readable storage media having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that executes a method of facilitating tag management, the method comprising:

searching for a tag located in a remote source;

consolidating the tag from the remote source with a plurality of tags maintained in a local source to form a set of tags; and

synchronizing the set of tags containing at least the tag from the remote source and the plurality of tags from the local source to harmonize the tag from the remote source with the plurality of tags from the local source, the synchronized set of tags being communicated to the local source and the remote source.