Patent ID: 8180757

Claim:
A method comprising: creating one or more tags, each of the one or more tags associated with a respective piece of content; associating a creation context with each of the one or more tags, the creation context including a computing environment used to create the one or more tags, the computing environment including an application through which the one or more tags was created, wherein the application through which the one or more tags was created includes at least one of a web browser, an email application, a collaboration application, and a document library application, and wherein the application through which the one or more tags was created provides contextual information about the piece of content with which the tag is associated; and searching the one or more tags for a keyword, and searching the one or more tags based upon, at least in part, the creation context, wherein searching the one or more tags includes search criteria defining a plurality of relative weighting factors for each of a plurality of creation contexts, the plurality of creation contexts including a plurality of methods used to create the one or more tags, the plurality of methods including at least one of automatic tag creation, semi-automatic tag creation, and manual tag creation.