Patent ID: 9710437
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for assigning a new set of tags to a document, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer executing a document tag management application stored in a persistent storage of the computer, the document with a set of existing tags created by an author of the document via a network; receiving, by the computer using the document tag management application, a set of new tags created by a group of tag editors corresponding to the document via the network; processing, by the computer using the document tag management application, the set of existing tags created by the author of the document with the set of new tags created by the group of tag editors by: assigning, by the computer using the document tag management application, the new set of tags to the document based on the processing of the set of existing tags created by the author of the document with the set of new tags created by the group of tag editors, wherein the computer using the document tag management application stores the new set of tags with the document.