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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zoltan Stekkelpak, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gyula Simonyi, Dublin, IE;
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and methods for managing applications on a mobile device. One method includes: receiving context data related to the mobile device; assigning a situational utility score to one or more applications available in an application repository by analyzing the context data and tags associated with the one or more applications to determine which applications have situational usefulness; and when a first application has a situational utility score greater than a first threshold value, displaying a prompt on the mobile device to install the first application.