App search based on verbal description of icon

A non-transitory machine-readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of a machine to cause the processor to perform operations to perform a method, the operations comprising:

• receiving a search request from a user device, the search request including a verbal description of attributes of an icon corresponding to an app;
• processing the search request via a natural language processing model to derive an intent of the search request to search for icon attributes,
• searching an icon knowledge base in response to the derived intent, the icon knowledge base including records with icon attributes generated by an image processor based on icons collected from an app storage, to identify a ranked list of apps;
• and
• providing a search result to the user device, the result identifying at least a top ranked app having an icon matching the verbal description of attributes.

A device comprising:

• a processor, and
• a memory device coupled to the processor and having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a search request from a user device, the search request including a verbal description of attributes of an icon corresponding to an app,
• processing the search request via a natural language processing model to derive an intent of the search request to search for icon attributes,
• searching an icon knowledge base in response to the derived intent, the icon knowledge base including records with icon attributes generated by an image processor based on icons collected from an app storage, to identify a ranked list of apps;
• and
• providing a search result to the user device, the result identifying at least a top ranked app having an icon matching the verbal description of attributes.