Patent Document ID: 8266140
Application ID: 12403756

Base Claim:
1. A method of acquiring tags using web search, the method comprising: receiving a search query in a search engine; processing the search query by the search engine to return and a plurality of candidate resources as a list corresponding to the search query; generating a graphical tag cloud for each of the plurality of candidate resources returned by the search engine, wherein each of the graphical tag clouds is displayed in association with a respective candidate resource; sorting the list of candidate resources; receiving a selection of a candidate resource from the list of candidate resources; extracting at least one tag from the search query; tagging the candidate resource with an extracted tag from the search query; and incrementing a hit count for only the candidate resource selected from the list of candidate resources and a hit count for at least one tag associated with the candidate resource matching the extracted tags; wherein a frequency of occurrence for each extracted tag with respect to the candidate resource selected from the list of candidate resources is maintained by increasing a corresponding counter by one.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the list of candidate resources are sorted in descending order using an index that is obtained for each candidate resource by adding frequencies of occurrence for entire tags with respect to a corresponding resource.