Abstract: The techniques, methods and systems described herein facilitate the automated discovery and presentation of content created, published or otherwise made public by “experts” and key influencers on particular topics. As such, users that may be interested in particular topics but may not know who to connect with in order to receive the most pertinent information can receive highly-relevant information. Embodiments of the invention use topics of interest identified by the user and/or automatically identifies topics based on previous postings, communication, contacts, etc. Individuals, companies, organizations and other entities that have been recognized as highly influential in those topics are identified and, without explicit actions by the user, adds content generated by the influential entities to the user's content data feed.

Abstract: The techniques, methods and systems described herein facilitate the automated discovery and presentation of content created, published or otherwise made public by “experts” and key influencers on particular topics. As such, users that may be interested in particular topics but may not know who to connect with in order to receive the most pertinent information can receive highly-relevant information. Embodiments of the invention use topics of interest identified by the user and/or automatically identifies topics based on previous postings, communication, contacts, etc. Individuals, companies, organizations and other entities that have been recognized as highly influential in those topics are identified and, without explicit actions by the user, adds content generated by the influential entities to the user's content data feed.

Abstract: A database system that can synchronize all or a part of its contents over a limited bandwidth link is described. The lowest layer of the system, the bedrock layer, implements a transactional block store. On top of this is a B+-tree that can efficiently compute a digest (hash) of the records within any range of key values in O(log n) time. The top level is a communication protocol that directs the synchronization process such that minimization of bits communicated, rounds of communication, and local computation are simultaneously addressed.

Abstract: A database system that can synchronize all or a part of its contents over a limited bandwidth link is described. The lowest layer of the system, the bedrock layer, implements a transactional block store. On top of this is a B+-tree that can efficiently compute a digest (hash) of the records within any range of key values in O(log n) time. The top level is a communication protocol that directs the synchronization process such that minimization of bits communicated, rounds of communication, and local computation are simultaneously addressed.