Patent ID: 8499041
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. a system for facilitating collaboration between two or more users in an enterprise via a network, the system comprising a server and two or more user computers including processors and memory, each user computer having a browser client configured to perform browsing on the network; the browser clients configured with the server to: provide a plurality of collaborative services relative to one or more applications invoked by one or more of the users on one or more of the user computers, the server having access through a gateway of the enterprise to a plurality of roles of the users maintained in the enterprise, the system configured to assign expert ratings, in accordance with the roles, to the users in one or more communities of interest supported in the system; make available to each user computer, in web format, content from one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous content sources, at least some of the content obtained via the one or more applications; capture in a web layer and make available to the user computers explicit social information and implicit social information provided by the users via the browser clients using the collaborative services; the implicit social information comprising at least a user footprint; and the explicit social information comprising at least one of the following: a tag, an annotation, and a rating; and provide each said user with an ability to: operate the browser in a public mode, where all activity of the user is visible to other participants; and operate the browser in a private mode, where all activity of the user is hidden from other ones of said users; and operate the browser in a manner that enables the user to select which one of two or more aspects of a browsing session being performed by the user are made public and which one or more aspects of the browsing session are maintained private.