Patent ID: 9633388
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A computing system configured to identify data repository deficits, comprising: a server system, comprising a computing device, that hosts an interactive catalog of items arranged using a hierarchical browse structure; a data repository that stores: a system comprising a search engine configured to identify catalog items in the interactive catalog of items that do not have an amount of feedback that meets a first threshold, wherein the first threshold is greater than one; a recommendation system configured to: use similar items data stored in the data repository as a B-tree data structure, replicated across multiple machines to accommodate heavy loads, to determine, for a user, user item affinity based at least in part on a similarity of at least one item, for which the user previously provided feedback, with at least one of the identified catalog items that do not have a sufficient amount of feedback that meets the first threshold, wherein the first threshold is greater than one, the similarity determined based at least in part on the item-to-item mapping, based at least in part on the determined user item affinity, recommend to the user candidate items, identified as not having the amount of feedback that meets the first threshold wherein the first threshold is eater than one for the user to provide feedback for; and