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Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2010
Applicants:

Padmanabha D. Rajagopalan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Lavanya Ramanujam, New Providence, NJ (US);

Ioannis Tsampalis, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Padmanabha D. Rajagopalan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Lavanya Ramanujam, New Providence, NJ (US);

Ioannis Tsampalis, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0214 (2013.01);
Abstract

An application store provides an incentive based recommendation method for recommending a mobile station content item. A user of a first mobile station recommends the mobile station content item to a second user. The application store distributes the recommendation through a mobile communication network to a mobile station of the second user. The application store stores information associated with the recommendation and detects access of the mobile station content item by the second user. In response to the detected access, the application store provides a reward to the first user based on the stored information.


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