Patent Document ID: 8200617
Application ID: 12489352

Base Claim:
1. A method for automatically mapping a pattern of a location identifier of an object to a semantic type using metadata associated with the object, the method, comprising: determining the location identifier for the object; wherein, the metadata corresponds to the semantic type with which the object or content embodied therein has a semantic relationship; extracting the pattern from the location identifier of the object; storing the pattern in a database embodied in a machine-readable storage medium as being mapped to the semantic type; wherein, the pattern corresponds to the semantic type with which the object or the content embodied therein has a semantic relationship; wherein, the metadata has an associated weighting; and wherein, the pattern extracted from the location identifier has a trustworthiness rating that corresponds to the associated weighting of the metadata.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, retrieving the pattern from the database; wherein, the pattern is used to search for other location identifiers also having the pattern for locating other objects or other objects having content embodied therein, that have the semantic relationship to the semantic type.