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US 8,818,337 B2Granted
Application of community-defined descriptors to mobile content
AssigneeFunMobility, Inc.
InventorsSrivathsan Narasimhan, Eric F. Allen, Skot Leach, Hudson George, Lincoln Lydick, Yu-Jen Dennis Chen, Adam Lavine, Silvy Mathews
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Abstract
A method of organizing mobile content in a network environment is provided that includes providing pieces of mobile content on a database, selecting one of the pieces of mobile content, receiving a descriptor to be associated with the selected piece of mobile content from user activity, and associating the descriptor to the selected piece of mobile content.
Claims17
A method of organizing mobile content in a network environment, the method comprising:
- providing pieces of mobile content on a database;
- receiving preliminary descriptors to be associated with the pieces of mobile content, the preliminary descriptors configured to be received from a selected subset of users of a community within the network environment that were first provided with access to the pieces of mobile content before such access was provided to other users of the community within the network environment;
- associating the preliminary descriptors to the pieces of the mobile content;
- categorizing the pieces of mobile content according to the preliminary descriptors;
- receiving a selection of a piece of mobile content from a user of the community within the network environment;
- receiving a community descriptor to be associated with the selected piece of mobile content from the user of the community;
- determining a weight for the community descriptor based on a content type of the selected piece of mobile content, the weight of the community descriptor describing a degree of relevance between the community descriptor and the selected piece of mobile content;
- associating the community descriptor and the weight of the community descriptor to the selected piece of mobile content;
- and
- recategorizing the selected piece of mobile content according to the community descriptor.
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A method of organizing mobile content in a network, the method comprising:
- providing visual mobile content on a database;
- receiving one or more preliminary tags for the visual mobile content to be associated with the visual mobile content, the one or more preliminary tags configured to preliminarily define the visual mobile content, wherein the one or more preliminary tags are received from a selected subset of users of a community within the network that were first provided with access to the visual mobile content before such access was provided to other users of the community within the network;
- associating the one or more preliminary tags to the visual mobile content;
- organizing the visual mobile content according to the one or more preliminary tags;
- receiving community tags from users of the community within the network, the community tags corresponding to the visual mobile content and defining the visual mobile content;
- determining weights for the community tags based on a content type of the visual mobile content, the weights of the community tags describing degrees of relevance between the community tags and the visual mobile content;
- organizing and categorizing the community tags using collaborative filtering techniques;
- and
- applying the community tags including the weights of the community tags to the visual mobile content.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.