Patent ID: 7200592

Claim:
A method for synchronizing profile data based on one or more changes in affinity to knowledge data in a system, the profile data including at least an affinity of a person to knowledge data, the method comprising: providing metadata information associated with stored content belonging to one or more topical categories of knowledge data, wherein the metadata information at least represents a history of the person's activities with the stored content, wherein the person's activities with the stored content that are represented by the metadata information comprise one or more of authoring data, responding to data, linking to data, modifying data, or reading data in the stored content; computing the affinity of the person to the one or more topical categories of knowledge data based at least in part on the history of the person's activities with the stored content belonging to the one or more topical categories of knowledge data as represented by the metadata information; determining one or more changes in the affinity of the person to the one or more topical categories of knowledge data based on monitoring the person's activities with the stored content belonging to the one or more topical categories of knowledge data; and synchronizing the profile data to indicate a change in the affinity of the person to the one or more topical categories of knowledge data that corresponds to the determined one or more changes.