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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2007
Waqas Ahmed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Russell A. Dicker, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Allen Mongrain, Seattle, WA (US);
Val Dan Dar Ion I. Rosca, Iasi, RO;
Florin V. Manolache, Succava, RO;
Corneliu Gabriel Alexandru Rudeanu, Iasi, RO;
Waqas Ahmed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Russell A. Dicker, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Allen Mongrain, Seattle, WA (US);
Val Dan Dar Ion I. Rosca, Iasi, RO;
Florin V. Manolache, Succava, RO;
Corneliu Gabriel Alexandru Rudeanu, Iasi, RO;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Tag merging enables a hosting entity such as a website to determine one or more tags that are logically-related to a particular tag and to present these tags to users to enable the users to vote whether to merge a logically-related tag with the particular tag. The hosting entity may determine these logically-related tags in multiple ways. For instance, the hosting entity may analyze keyword-to-keyword similarity data, item-overlap data, or may employ stemming logic. When the entity presents these tags to a user, the user may vote to merge the particular tag with one or more of the presented logically-related tags. When merged, items associated with the selected logically-related tag may become associated with the particular tag, or vice versa. Additionally, the selected tag may be removed from the items previously associated with the selected tag, or vice versa.