APPLICATION DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM FOR RATING AND RECOMMENDING APPLICATIONS

摘要

Techniques for assessing application quality and recommending applications to users are disclosed herein. A method according to the techniques monitors the users' activities of using the applications and records the usage information. The method further generates and randomly presents rating requests to users who are using the applications to solicit ratings of the applications. An application quality score for an application is calculated and updated based on the usage information and ratings for a group of users having common demographic or geographic attributes. The method automatically recommends an application to a user depending on the corresponding application quality score and a taste similarity score for the user calculated by a taste similarity algorithm based on the user's specific social network information.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing a computer software application to a plurality of users; receiving user activity data of at least some of the plurality of users including a first user, each user being active within an instance of the application running on a computer system; randomly selecting the first user; sending a survey regarding the application to the first user; collecting a survey answer from the first user; recording the survey answer and the user activity data in a database stored in a server; and generating, by the server, an application quality score for the application depending on the survey answer and the user activity data, wherein the application quality score suggests a quality level of the application.