Method and system to recommend a starter list of applications from an application marketplace to a new electronic device

摘要

A method and system are provided for populating an electronic device registered for a user with applications from an application platform that the electronic device is operating with. The method is carried out by an application recommendation node. The method includes the acts of collecting a user profile for the user and an identifier for the electronic device, selecting a list of applications from the application platform based on the user profile, associating the list of applications with the identifier, receiving notification of a first presentation of the identifier following the association, and pushing the list of applications to the electronic device corresponding to the identifier following the notification.

主权项

1. A method for populating a new electronic device with a customized application starter list of applications from an application platform that said new electronic device is operating with, the method comprising:
collecting, via application crawlers, metadata describing each application of a plurality of applications from an application market server; indexing, via an application indexing engine, each application of the plurality of applications by associating keywords with each application of the plurality of applications using the collected metadata; collecting, via a profiling engine, a user profile of a user; collecting a device identifier of a new electronic device associated to the user; retrieving, utilizing the device identifier, a particular application platform that the new electronic device is configured to operate with; generating, via a matching engine, an application starter list of applications selected from the particular application platform that match the user profile using application data generated by the indexing; associating, via the matching engine, the application starter list with the device identifier; after the associating, detecting that the new electronic device is visible in a network for a first time; upon detecting that the new electronic device is visible in the network for the first time, pushing the application starter list to the new electronic device; and after the pushing of the application starter list, via a starter service client, connecting to the particular application platform and downloading the applications of the application starter list.