Method and apparatus for socially aware applications and application stores
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsKemal Ugur, Petros Belimpasakis
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Abstract
An approach is provided for social networking-based item installation. A social network platform receives a request from at least one device, a service, or a combination to initiate an installation of at least one item. The platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of information associated with the at least one device, the request, or a combination thereof to determine at least one other device. The service platform then determines to cause, at least in part, an initiation of the installation of the at least one item at the at least one device, the at least one other device, or a combination thereof.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a request, from at least one device, a user associated with the device, a user associated with a service, or a combination thereof, to initiate an installation of at least one item selected from a socially aware application;
- processing information associated with the request to determine at least one other device or service;
- transmitting information of the request of the installation to the at least one other device or service to initiate an installation at the at least one other device or service;
- and
- informing one or more additional users of a shared social network to install the at least one item, the at least one item having been installed by one or more users in the shared social network,
- wherein the one or more additional users of the shared social network are provided with an indicator of a number of users in the shared social network that have installed the at least one item, and
- wherein the at least one item includes, at least in part, one or more applications, wherein the one or more applications are represented by an icon configured to graphically adjust depending on social popularity of each application.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
- receiving a request, from at least one device, a user associated with the device, a user associated with a service, or a combination thereof, to initiate an installation of at least one item selected from a socially aware application;
- processing information associated with the request to determine at least one other device or service;
- transmitting information of the request of the installation to the at least one other device or service to initiate an installation at the at least one other device or service;
- and
- informing one or more additional users of a shared social network install the at least one item, the at least one item having been installed by one or more users in the shared social network,
- wherein the one or more additional users of the shared social network are provided with an indicator of a number of users in the shared social network that have installed the at least one item, and
- wherein the at least one item includes, at least in part, one or more applications, wherein the one or more applications are represented by an icon configured to graphically adjust depending on social popularity of each application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.