Patent ID: 9357333
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile terminal communicatively connected to an application selection server for selecting an application and an application server for transmitting an application, the mobile terminal comprising: a portal application reception module configured to receive an activation of a predetermined portal application from a user; a location identification module configured to identify a current location of the mobile terminal; a location information transmission module configured to transmit the identified location to application selection server in response to the activation of the portal application; an application data reception module configured to receive from the application selection server data about an application selected by the application selection server, the data about the application including information for installing the application; an installation determination module configured to determine whether the selected application has been installed on the mobile terminal in response to the data about the selected application; and an installation module configured to install the selected application by accessing the application server and receiving installation data of the selected application from the application server based on the data about the application when it is determined that the selected application has not been installed on the mobile terminal, wherein the data about the selected application is data about an application having a largest weight from among data about applications that are associated with location information within a predetermined range based on the identified location, and wherein a weight for each of the applications is represented as a sum or a product of a function value of a distance between the current location of the mobile terminal and location information associated with the data about applications and a constant predefined for each of the applications.