Patent ID: 8095377

Claim:
A method for defining a community of network users, comprising: collecting data relating to a plurality of network users of an enterprise network, wherein the community of network users comprises the plurality of network users of the enterprise network, wherein the plurality of network users comprises employees of an enterprise associated with the enterprise network, where the data comprises demographic information relating to the plurality of network users and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the plurality of network users, wherein the demographic information is collected from a human resources system associated with the enterprise associated with the enterprise network; anonymizing the data to generate anonymized data, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data such that data specific to a given one of the plurality of network users is unavailable to entities other than a source of the data; aggregating the anonymized data to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users; and outputting the activity-to-demographic mapping, wherein at least one of the collecting, anonymizing, aggregating and outputting is performed by a server.