Patent ID: 9177255
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,G06N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a conditional scored list of applications for use in recommending applications to a user, the method comprising: storing on a cloud computing service a conditional probability table across a set of available applications provided by the cloud computing service, wherein a first conditional probability in the conditional probability table is the probability that users of the cloud computing service who have installed a first application in the set of available applications have also installed a second application in the set of available applications; receiving at the cloud computing service a request to provide a scored list of applications for a user; retrieving a set of user-installed applications for the user; calculating a total conditional probability for each application in the set of available applications, wherein the total conditional probability of an application in the set of available applications is a function of the conditional probabilities of the application obtained from the conditional probability table given each application in the set of user-installed applications; constructing the scored list of applications from the set of available applications, wherein a score of each application is its corresponding total conditional probability; and outputting the scored list of applications.