Patent ID: 8566178
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computing system configured to identify data repository deficits, comprising: a computing device; an interactive catalog of items being offered to users for purchase; a data repository that stores: a system configured to identify catalog items that do not have an amount of the first type of information that meets a first threshold; a recommendation system configured to recommend to a user candidate items, identified as not having the amount of the first type of information that meets the first threshold, for the user to provide the first type of information for, wherein the recommendation system uses data stored in the data repository to determine user item affinity based at least in part on a similarity of at least one item, for which the user previously provided information of the first type, with at least one of the identified catalog items that do not have a sufficient amount of the first type of information that meets the first threshold; and