Vulcan Assigned Patent

Vulcan Technologies LLC, Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,443,038) developed by Jayakody, Prasantha, Seattle, WA, Tran, Linh Dinh, Shoreline, WA, and Wang, Jiaxin, Redmond, WA, for a “method and system for tag suggestion in a tag-associated data-object storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating tag assignment to data objects as data objects are added to a tag-associated data-object storage system by users of the tag-associated data-object storage system and to facilitate subsequent display, access, and further characterization of data objects that already reside in the a tag-associated data-object storage system. Methods and systems of the present invention provide for automated tag suggestion to users in order to both increase usability of the interface provided to the tag-associated data-object storage systems as well as decrease the likelihood of unnecessary and unproductive tag proliferation within the tag-associated data-object storage system.“

The patent application was filed on November 1, 2011 (13/286,720).