Patent ID: 9324082
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing a database of item listings; receiving user-provided tags, each of the user-provided tags associated with at least one of the item listings, each of the user-provided tags including a tag name and a tag value representing a name/value pair of an item attribute from a product category and tag metadata, the tag metadata including a descriptor of at least one of the tag name or the tag value indicating whether a user-provided tag is included within a graduated subset of a seller tag namespace, the graduated subset of the seller tag namespace representing user-provided tags that meet a graduation threshold, the graduation threshold is based on a combination of popularity score, a minimum item count, and a time factor relevant to the current date of the user-provided tags of the item attribute from the product category, the popularity score is determined by a count of the name/value pair and a total item count of the user-provided tags of the item attribute from the product category; identifying a group of the user-provided tags from the graduated subset of the seller tag namespace to recommend for an item listing; and serving, by use of a processor, the recommended group of the user-provided tags from the graduated subset of the seller tag namespace to a user viewing the item listing, the recommended group of the user-provided tags including name/value pairs of the item attribute from the product category that the user can select.