Patent Document ID: 7752534
Application ID: 11533058

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented process for customizing a display of a tag cloud, the computer implemented process comprising: displaying an interactive legend in conjunction with the display of the tag cloud, the interactive legend comprising a plurality of tag attributes, each tag attribute associated with a drop down menu comprising a plurality of display characteristics; responsive to a selection of a display characteristic from the drop down menu, mapping the display characteristic to a tag in the tag cloud, each display characteristic representing one of the plurality of tag attributes; modifying the tag cloud, wherein each tag is displayed in accordance with a display characteristic mapped to the tag by the interactive legend; and wherein the tag attributes are rearranged, added, or removed from the interactive legend.

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Claim 3:
3. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the plurality of tag attributes comprise: popularity of an item, last update of an item, frequency of updates to an item, age of an item, size of an item, most recently accessed, and whether there have been comments or replies related to an item.