Patent ID: 9430476
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for making user recommendations for infotainment system applications, said method comprising: collecting, on a central server computer including a processor and a memory module, user rating data for in-vehicle infotainment system applications from many infotainment system users, including both explicit ratings and implicit ratings; filtering the user rating data for the applications based on relevance to produce filtered user/application rating data; computing, on the central server computer, inferred ratings for user/application relationships where no rating is available, using the filtered user/application rating data in a user-driven consensus calculation; computing, on the central server computer, inferred ratings for user/application relationships where no rating is available, using the filtered user/application rating data in an application-driven consensus calculation; synthesizing user application recommendations based on the inferred ratings from the user-driven consensus calculation and the application-driven consensus calculation; and providing the user application recommendations to the infotainment system users for the user/application relationships where no rating is available and the inferred ratings are high.