They're not trying to patent the use of tags. They're trying to patent a metric for measuring and quantifying meta tags.
The weird thing about this is that their metric doesn't actually measure the media itself, only the quantity of meta tags. I guess it works as a metric, but it's more a measurement of popularity, not "interestingness".
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To the original poster of this article:
They're not trying to patent the use of tags. They're trying to patent a metric for measuring and quantifying meta tags.
The weird thing about this is that their metric doesn't actually measure the media itself, only the quantity of meta tags. I guess it works as a metric, but it's more a measurement of popularity, not "interestingness".
Let me guess: his middle name is "And".