Tag scoring for elements associated with a common tag

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9245271-B1
Application number	US-75078207-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	May 18, 2007
Priority date	May 18, 2007
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

Tag scoring for elements associated with a common tag enables a user to conduct a tag search and view a listing of elements associated with the tag. The listing can be ordered by each element's tag score. To create such a tag score, users may associate an element with one or more tags that characterize the element. A tag score may then be assigned to this element for each assigned tag and may be based on a multitude of factors. These factors may include a number of times that the element has been tagged with the assigned tag and users' votes on the accuracy of the assigned tag to the element. Tag-scoring factors may include, among others, an age of a tag associated with the element, a click rate for the element, a customer review of the element, a sales rank for the element, or an availability of the element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
associating, at a computing device, a plurality of elements with a particular tag, the plurality of elements being different from one another;
receiving, at the computing device, a quality rating for each element of the plurality of elements;
receiving information regarding a number of times that an element of the plurality of elements has been associated by the computing device and other computing devices with the particular tag;
computing, at the computing device, based at least in part on the quality ratings of the plurality of elements and the received information, a tag score for each element of the plurality of elements associated with the particular tag, the tag score for each element indicating a relevance of the particular tag to the element;
computing, at the computing device, for each element of the plurality of elements,
a rank value for the element with respect to other elements of the plurality of elements associated with the particular tag, the rank value computed based at least in part on the tag scores computed for the elements associated with the particular tag; and

in response to a request for the particular tag at the first website, causing display for each element of the plurality of elements associated with the particular tag:
information regarding the element;
the tag score computed for the element, the tag score indicating the relevance of the particular tag to the element; and
the rank value computed for the element,

wherein one of the elements of the plurality of elements associated with the particular tag is received from one or more second websites in response to the first website initiating a web crawl of the one or more second websites.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein at least one element associated with the particular tag comprises an item for sale in an electronic catalog.

3. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein at least one element associated with the particular tag comprises customer-created content.

4. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the particular tag describes a characteristic of the elements associated with the particular tag.

5. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein a user of a merchant website associates at least some of the elements with the particular tag.

6. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein a user defines the particular tag, the particular tag describing an attribute of at least one element of the plurality of elements.

7. A server system comprising:
a memory configured to at least store specific computer-executable instructions; and
one or more processors in communication with the memory, the one or more processors configured to execute the specific computer-executable instructions to at least:
for each item of a plurality of items in an item catalog,
associate a particular tag with the item, the particular tag characterizing the item;
receive information based on a number of times that the item has been associated with the particular tag;
calculate a tag score for the particular tag associated with the item, the tag score indicating a relevance of the particular tag to the item, the tag score calculated based at least in part on an availability to ship the item and the received information;
generate a rank value for the item with respect to other items in the item catalog that are associated with the particular tag, the rank value for the item generated based on respective tag scores for the other items in the item catalog;
receive a query for a tag based on a request received at a first website from a computing device;
retrieve at least one other item associated with the tag located at one or more second websites in response to the first website initiating a web crawl of the one or more second websites; and
cause presentation of a respective tag score for the tag associated with the at least one other item and a respective rank value for the at least one other item.

8. A server system as recited in claim 7 , wherein the items in the item catalog are offered for sale on a merchant website.

Assignees

• Ahmed Waqas
• Mongrain Scott Allen
• Wilson Aaron D
• Cox Alexander J
• Dicker Russell A
• Manolache Florin V
• Amazon Tech Inc

Inventors

• Ahmed Waqas
• Mongrain Scott Allen
• Wilson Aaron D
• Cox Alexander J
• Dicker Russell A
• Manolache Florin V

Classifications

• G06F17/30

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/00 Primary

  Commerce · CPC title

• G06Q30/0631

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

• G06F16/9558

  Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations · CPC title

• G06F16/00

  Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor · CPC title