Patent Document ID: 8971644
Application ID: 13352867

Base Claim:
1. A method of determining an annotation for a particular image, the method comprising: determining a plurality of images related to the particular image, the plurality of images stored in one or more computer systems; identifying a plurality of annotations associated with the plurality of images; generating an ontology for the particular image wherein the ontology comprises: a plurality of terms, the plurality of annotations, and the plurality of images arranged in a hierarchy with the plurality of annotations being downstream from the plurality of terms associated with a highest level of the hierarchy, and the plurality of images being downstream from the plurality of annotations, and a plurality of links defining relationships between respective terms, annotations, or images, wherein each link is associated with a respective relevance value indicating a measure of relevance between two respective terms, annotations, or images connected by a respective link; determining a total relevance value for each term associated with the highest level, wherein for each term associated with the highest level, the total relevance value is a sum of relevance values of links downstream from the term; and associating one of the plurality of terms having a highest total relevance value with the particular image as an image annotation.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein each image of the plurality of images is associated with an image relevance value, wherein the image relevance value is an indication of a measure of relevance to the particular image, and wherein the total relevance value is further based on the sum of image relevance values of images downstream from each term associated with the highest level.