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Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2006
Applicants:

Roderic C. Deyo, Redmond, WA (US);

Sandeep Sahasrabudhe, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sunil Swami, Sammamish, WA (US);

Brian D. Price, Everett, WA (US);

Inventors:

Roderic C. Deyo, Redmond, WA (US);

Sandeep Sahasrabudhe, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sunil Swami, Sammamish, WA (US);

Brian D. Price, Everett, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methods that integrate user assigned association among a plurality of resources or entities. The subject innovation employs an association component that relates such resources or entities, based on aggregate of user notions that are assigned for relationships; and/or based on how users perceive existence of relationships among such resources. Accordingly, resources can be related (e.g., linked, matched, tagged and the like) based on relevance of collective user behavior during tagging.


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