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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2007
Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, NC (US);
Arthur R. Francis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Veronique L. Moses, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, NC (US);
Arthur R. Francis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Veronique L. Moses, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visual display of tags and provide a method, system and computer program product for contributor characteristic based tag clouds. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag cloud generation method can include loading tags for resources in a social bookmarking system, determining a personal characteristic for each of the end users applying the tags to the resources, and rendering a tag cloud for the tags based upon the personal characteristic of the end users and not based upon the frequency of use of the tags alone.