US 8,819,025 B2Granted

Recommending applications for mobile devices based on installation histories

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsFabio De Bona, Bhaskar Mehta

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving installation data, the installation data corresponding to one or more applications that can be installed and executed on mobile computing devices, receiving metadata corresponding to each of the one or more applications, for each application: generating a time series based on a number of installs, processing the time series and the metadata, calculating a score, determining that the score is greater than or equal to a threshold score, and in response to the determining, adding the respective application to an index of trending applications, storing the index of trending applications in computer-readable memory, retrieving the index of trending applications, and transmitting indications of one or more applications for display based upon the index of trending applications.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more computers;
and
a computer-readable storage device coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving installation data, the installation data corresponding to one or more applications that can be installed and executed on mobile computing devices, the installation data including a number of installation of each of the one or more applications;
receiving metadata corresponding to each of the one or more applications;
for each application:
generating a time series based on the number of installations;
processing the time series and the metadata to identify a value representing an acceleration of installations of the application over a time period of the time series;
calculating a score based on the value, wherein for each application, the score is based on a fractional installation volume of the application;
comparing the score to a threshold score;
and
adding the respective application to an index of trending applications based on the score being greater than or equal to the threshold score.

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