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Creating tag clouds based on user specified arbitrary shape tags

US9218321B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Rachel Katherine Emma Bellamy · Bedford, US
Michael Desmond · White Plains, US
Jacquelyn A. Martino · Cold Spring, US
Paul M. Matchen · Bethel, US
Harold L. Ossher · South Salem, US
John T. Richards · Honeoye Falls, US
Calvin B. Swart · Poughkeepsie, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 29, 2013
Grant date	Dec 22, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 9, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F40/00
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Mechanisms are provided for generating a shape tag cloud display. A user input is received that specifies an arbitrarily hand-drawn shape tag. A set of shape tag equivalence classes is updated based on the received user input to assign the arbitrarily hand-drawn shape tag to a shape tag equivalence class having similar previously entered arbitrarily hand-drawn shape tags. Rankings of the shape tags relative to one another are generated. The shape tag cloud display is generated based on the rankings. A representation of each shape tag within the shape tag cloud display has display characteristics based on the rankings. The shape tag cloud display is then output.

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