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John A Solaro

David E Gardner

Cyrus Kanga

Craig R Maitlen

Jeff Fleischmann

Jennifer Lauren Rodenhouse

Antonio Pizzutelli

David Heutmaker

Edward M Capuano

Martin Jung

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Jinsong Yu

Brian E King

Insheik Martin Jung

Colin Michael Riley

Jason Dean Giles

Salvador Alucema

Keith Douglas Senzel

Matthew James Schoenholz

John E Knapp

Zubin Alexander

Rahul Ramesh Deshpande

Robert Edward Parkin

Russell Alexander

Jeffrey Scott Fleischmann

Brian P Walker

Cyril S Bouanna

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Described is a technology by which private content maintained behind a firewall (e.g., in a 'mesh') may be searched, browsed, and accessed via an index that exists outside of the firewall. Searching of the index may include checking permissions of a user against permissions associated with metadata in the index, e.g., per watch folder into which file content is added. When content is selected, e.g., by clicking on a search result, a request is made. An application polls for such requests, and when detected, pushes a copy of the content through the firewall to the requester. The search may be performed over more than one index, with aggregated search results returned.

Content mesh searching

A network-community research service includes a research module to receive a research query from a requesting member belonging to a network community. The research module is configured to answer the research query with a ranked list of research results at least partially prioritized based on network-community activities of non-requesting members.

Network-community research service

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John A Solaro