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Banning tags

  • US 9,514,228 B2
  • Filed: 11/27/2007
  • Issued: 12/06/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, from a syndication feed, a piece of uploaded content and a policy, the policy specifying a non-empty set of banned tags for the piece of uploaded content;

    receiving a request to apply a tag term to the piece of uploaded content;

    determining, by a processor, in view of the policy, whether to apply the tag term to the piece of uploaded content;

    causing display of the uploaded content on a website in view of the determination; and

    detecting that the policy is updated from the syndication feed, and in response to detecting the updated policy;

    receiving the updated policy;

    checking a tag term applied to the piece of uploaded content against the updated policy to identify a banned tag associated with the tag term applied to the piece of uploaded content;

    in response to the tag term violating the updated policy, removing the tag term from the piece of uploaded content displayed on the website.

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