Patent ID: 8817969

Claim:
A system for obtaining human input related to items of interest to a user, the system comprising: a data store; a computing device in communication with the data store, the computing device operative to at least: receive a request to obtain human input regarding the item of interest in accordance with query information obtained from the user, the query information including one or more questions regarding the item of interest and one or more query criteria comprising desired characteristics possessed by the human providing input; submit the query information to a human interaction task system to generate human input related to the at least one item of interest, the human interaction task system generating the human input related to the item of interest by: obtaining profile information comprising characteristics of one or more human respondents associated with the human interaction task system, wherein the obtained profile information comprises a human respondent rating based, at least in part, on one or more ratings received from at least one user, wherein the one or more ratings are based, at least in part, on a quality of one or more responses to previously submitted query questions by the human respondent; electronically selecting human respondents from the one or more human respondents associated with the human interaction task system based, at least in part, on identified correlations between the obtained profile information and obtained query criteria, wherein the obtained query criteria is modified to increase a number of selected human respondents when the number of human respondents initially selected does not satisfy a threshold; transmitting the one or more query questions to the selected human respondents via respective telephony devices of the human respondents; receiving one or more responses to the query questions generated by the human respondents via respective telephony devices of the human respondents; and storing the one or more responses in the data store.