Meta tag ownership and control

摘要

Personalized metadata may be selected from a group of tags, where the tags include annotations, synopsis, references, etc. and owner controlled rules for visibility and control options such as removal, combining, weighting, adding, sharing, privatizing, assigning etc. are provided.

主权项

1. A method for managing meta tags for a plurality of objects, the method comprising:
updating, by a processor, a shared object authority plan (SOAP), the SOAP including records of a plurality of objects, records of owners for one or more of the objects, and records of one or more meta tags for objects in the plurality; selecting records, by the processor, from the SOAP and using those records to generate a shared object authority record (SOAR) for an object to be sent over a network, where the object has one or more meta tags associated to the object and meta tags are identified with one or more tag owners in the SOAR; and accepting parameters, by the processor, from an owner of a first meta tag, the parameters designating authorities, for non-owners of the first meta tag to manage or control meta tags identified with the owner of the first meta tag, the owner of the first meta tag being able to retain ownership of the first meta tag while allowing the stored first meta tag to be altered by a non-owner of the first meta tag.