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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Leonardo A. Soto Matamala, Saratoga, CA (US);

Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);

Scott M. Herz, Warrington, PA (US);

Tad Shimada, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04L 12/16 (2006.01); H04M 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/20 (2018.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3087 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01); G06F 17/30241 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); H04L 12/16 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01); H04M 7/0024 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/206 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2013.01); H04W 40/242 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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