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 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of determining a plurality of images related to the particular image further comprises: generating a fingerprint associated with the particular image; and determining the plurality of images related to the particular image, based on the fingerprint associated with the particular image and fingerprints associated with the plurality of images.