Context-influenced application recommendations
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1. A system comprising:
- one or more computers; and
a computer-readable medium 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 application acquisition data;
receiving location data that references a location of a mobile device;
receiving application data associated with each application available from an online application marketplace, the application data comprising a category of each application and a reputation of a developer of each application;
aggregating the application acquisition data, the location data and the application data to provide aggregated data;
selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available from the online application marketplace, one or more particular applications based on the aggregated data; and
providing a recommendation to the mobile device, wherein the recommendation identifies the one or more particular applications as applications that a user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recommending content based on context such as location. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that references a location of a mobile device, selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available in an online application marketplace, one or more of the applications that are relevant to the location, and providing, by a recommendation server, a recommendation to the mobile device, where the recommendation identifies the one or more applications as applications that the user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading.
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1. A system comprising:
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one or more computers; and a computer-readable medium 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 application acquisition data; receiving location data that references a location of a mobile device; receiving application data associated with each application available from an online application marketplace, the application data comprising a category of each application and a reputation of a developer of each application; aggregating the application acquisition data, the location data and the application data to provide aggregated data; selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available from the online application marketplace, one or more particular applications based on the aggregated data; and providing a recommendation to the mobile device, wherein the recommendation identifies the one or more particular applications as applications that a user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
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receiving application acquisition data; receiving location data that references a location of a mobile device; receiving application data associated with each application available from an online application marketplace, the application data comprising a category of each application and a reputation of a developer of each application; aggregating the application acquisition data, the location data and the application data to provide aggregated data; selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available from the online application marketplace, one or more particular applications based on the aggregated data; and providing a recommendation to the mobile device, wherein the recommendation identifies the one or more particular applications as applications that a user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving application acquisition data; receiving location data that references a location of a mobile device; receiving application data associated with each application available from an online application marketplace, the application data comprising a category of each application and a reputation of a developer of each application; aggregating the application acquisition data, the location data and the application data to provide aggregated data; selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available from the online application marketplace, one or more particular applications based on the aggregated data; and providing, by a recommendation server, a recommendation to the mobile device, wherein the recommendation identifies the one or more particular applications as applications that a user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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