Patent ID: 8739070
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing an application carousel comprising the steps of: (a) providing a third party partner supplier with a means to create, select or group apps from said supplier in a unique app carousel created by said supplier in a self-serve website, wherein said apps are selected or grouped according to a theme or subject matter that said apps have in common, and wherein said supplier is provided with a means to provide a title for said app carousel and is provided with a means to provide at least review or comments at least in association with a GUI of said app carousel to promote said app carousel; (b) providing said supplier access to said unique app carousel, and allowing said supplier to populate said unique app carousel with app icons on a carousel display track, wherein said app icons correspond to said apps, and wherein said track appears graphically on said GUI as an inclined looped rotational track having at least front, rear and front center positions, wherein said track appears inclined away from a user screen viewed by a user so that said app icons at said front of said track, are larger than said icons which have rotated to said rear of said track, wherein said front center position corresponds to a largest said icon, and wherein said icons are linked for display to corresponding content pages, from which an app is selectable for download; (c) exposing said app carousel, once said populated with said created or selected apps for location by consumers via electronic devices including those of the group comprising: handsets, smart phones, tablet computers, mobile computers, desktop computers, televisions, display appliances, and associated browsers cooperating therewith; wherein said supplier includes a content manager and wherein said content manager is provided a space for one or more of the group comprising: summary, description, said comment, said review, blog, and at least further including in said space a third party blog from other than said supplier on some or all of: said app icons viewable on said app carousel, product pages associated with said app icons, said app carousel GUI, a product page associated with said app carousel, whereby the consumer makes a choice assisted by a content of said space including said third party blog.