Intuit, Inc.

Mark A Johnson

Thomas M Jones

Matt Eric Hart

Jonathan Michael Talan

Jorge R Olavarrieta

Frederick M Mozer

Janice C Moorman

Jeffrey O Pfeiffer

A method for managing trust level in a community comprises selecting a data provider and a data entry entity from the community, wherein the community comprises data providers providing provided data, data entry entity providers providing data entry entities, and reviewers, obtaining provided data and a trust level of the provided data from the data provider, retrieving a data entry quality level of the selected data entry entity from a community system, wherein the community system comprises data entry quality levels corresponding to the data entry entities, and determining a data source trust level based on the trust level of the provided data and the data entry quality level of the selected data entry entity, wherein the data source trust level indicates validity of data produced by the selected data entry entity.

Community to support the definition and sharing of source trust level configurations

Information missing from a database record is automatically identified and retrieved. In an embodiment, after the record is initially populated, a status such as complete, incomplete, missing, or verify is assigned to each field in the record. A request for information associated with the status is automatically generated, for instance asking a client to provide missing information or verify existing information. The request is transmitted to the client and solicits the client's response in any of a number of ways, for instance by email, phone, fax, or mail. The information is used to automatically update the record.

Automated data retrieval

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McKinney, TX, United States of America

Mark A Johnson