Mobile device with localized app recommendations

摘要

Mobile devices can provide app recommendations that are relevant to a location of interest. A localized app recommendation can be triggered (e.g., by a mobile device coming within a threshold distance of an application hotspot or some other user action). A location of interest can be determined. The location of interest can be the current location of the mobile device or another location (e.g., the destination in a mapping app). Using the location of interest, a localized application ranking database with app hotspot data can be queried with location data representing the location of interest. App recommendations can be received and displayed on the mobile device. Icons for apps that are relevant to the location of interest can be visually distinguished from other apps.

主权项

1. A method of recommending one or more locally relevant applications, the method comprising:
triggering, on a mobile device, a localized app recommendation process; determining, by the mobile device, a location of interest in response to the triggering of the localized app recommendation process; sending a query to a localized application ranking database that stores app hotspot data, wherein the query includes location data representing the location of interest, wherein the app hotspot data specifies one or more hotspots for each of a first plurality of applications, and wherein a hotspot of an application is determined based on usage of the application in an area corresponding to the hotspot; receiving, from the localized application ranking database, one or more relevant application recommendations that are relevant to the location of interest; and displaying the one or more relevant application recommendations.