Patent ID: 7734587

Claim:
A system for providing content items to users within an enterprise comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; a directory database stored in the memory including information identifying users within each of a plurality of user groups within the enterprise; a content aggregator communicatively coupled to the directory database and disposed behind a firewall of the enterprise, wherein the content aggregator is configured to cause the processor to: enable an administrator of the enterprise to define particular content feeds that each of the user groups within the enterprise is subscribed to; access the directory database to identify listings of users in each user group; associate, using the listings of users in each user group, each user with the particular content feeds of the user groups that each user is a member of so as to generate subscription information for each user; retrieve content items from a plurality of feeds; and store each content item in connection with the subscription information for each user so as to enable content items to be sent to each user based upon each of the user groups each user is a member of.