Application relevance determination based on social context

US9781540B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• QUALCOMM Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Padmapriya Jagannathan · San Diego, US
• Jill S. Iwasaki · San Diego, US
• Pooja Aggarwal · Bengaluru, IN
• Bennett M. King · San Diego, US
• Devarshi Shah · San Diego, US
• Roger M. Ruuspakka · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 7, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2017
• Expiry date: Aug 11, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/02
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for using context-aware recommendation techniques to facilitate content discovery on a mobile device platform. In particular, the context-aware recommendation techniques evaluate both a current device context and a social context to generate application relevance scores for each of a number of applications downloaded to a mobile device. Application representations on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile device are rearranged, resized, and/or otherwise affected according to their respective application relevance scores. In certain configurations, one or more applications are pinned, thereby altering (e.g., reducing or eliminating) how changes in their respective application relevance scores affect display of their respective application representations on the GUI of the mobile device.