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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Hakan Duman, Ipswich, GB;
Alexander L Healing, Ipswich, GB;
Hakan Duman, Ipswich, GB;
Alexander L Healing, Ipswich, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
A distributed system is described in which resource utilization decisions depend upon the categorization of resource descriptions stored in the distributed system. In the principal embodiment, the resource descriptions are web service descriptions which are augmented with tags (i.e. descriptive words or phrases) entered by users and/or by web service administrators. The system stores, for different groups of users, groups of tags popularly used by users within those groups. By monitoring tags input by a user, and proposing tags to the user from any groups which are under-represented in tags input by the user, a more balanced set of tags describing resources in the system is obtained. This leads to a more coherent and focussed set of tags in the system, which in turns results in better resource utilization decisions and hence a more efficient use of the resources of the distributed system.