Intuit, Inc.

Ricardo Marquez

Christopher David Nesladek

Michael J Graves

Lisa Cohen Gevelber

Miriam Geller

Joseph J O'Sullivan

Ashley M Fernandes

Gang Wan

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates application usage. During operation, the system obtains a user context associated with a first user, wherein the user context includes at least one of a location of the first user, profile data for the first user, device data associated with a computing device for the first user, and data types associated with existing applications on the computing device. Next, the system obtains a first set of new applications matching the user context. Finally, the system provides the first set of new applications to the first user for installation and use by the first user.

Chained data processing and application utilization

A system that facilitates providing of commercial offers is described. During operation, this system receives financial information associated with a user of financial software. Then, the system presents an icon corresponding to the commercial offer to the user. This commercial offer is targeted to the user based on a financial history of the user, which includes multiple transactions with multiple commercial establishments. Moreover, the icon exhibits animated behavior which can vary over time, and the user can pursue the commercial offer by interacting with the icon.

Facilitating embedded dynamic commercial offers

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Ricardo Marquez