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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
May. 29, 2012
Wei Pan, Quincy, MA (US);
Yaniv Altshuler, Ramat Ishai, IL;
Alex Paul Pentland, Lexington, MA (US);
Nadav Aharony, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wei Pan, Quincy, MA (US);
Yaniv Altshuler, Ramat Ishai, IL;
Alex Paul Pentland, Lexington, MA (US);
Nadav Aharony, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In exemplary implementations of this invention, mobile application (app) installations by users of one or more networks are predicted. Using network data gathered by smartphones, multiple 'candidate' graphs (including a call log graph) are calculated. The 'candidate' graphs are weighted by an optimization vector and then summed to calculate a composite graph. The composite graph is used to predict the conditional probabilities that the respective users will install an app, depending in part on whether the user's neighbors have previously installed the app. Exogenous factors, such as the app's quality, may be taken into account by creating a virtual candidate graph. The conditional probabilities may be used to select a subset of the users. Signals may be sent to the subset of users, including to recommend an app. Also, the probability of successful “trend ignition” may be predicted from network data.