Patent ID: 7523132

Claim:
A method for data tag generation for a plurality of physical items in the control of a user based upon a plurality of physical item data records of an item data management server that correspond to a plurality of physical items in the control of a user, the item data management server communicatively coupled to a user terminal and a plurality of servers via at least one data network, the method comprising: presenting a data tag creation query to the user terminal, receiving, in response to the data tag creation query, a data tag creation response that corresponds to and identifies a physical item data record of a physical item of the plurality of physical items in the control of the user, wherein the data tag creation response includes a data tag format selected from a plurality of data tag formats, each of the data tag formats having a data size threshold; retrieving a key from the physical item data record, wherein the key includes a creator and an item identification; retrieving a plurality of attribute values from the physical item data record, wherein a cumulative data size of the key with the plurality of attributes values is less than the data size threshold of the selected data tag format; creating a data tag criteria based upon the key and the plurality of attribute values of the physical item data record; generating a data tag based upon the data tag criteria; presenting the data tag identifying the physical item; and altering the physical item data record to associate the data tag criteria with the physical item in the control of a user, wherein the physical item data record for the physical item is retrieved from the plurality of physical item data records in response to receiving an input based upon the data tag.