Patent ID: 8819025

Claim:
A system comprising: one or more computers; and a computer-readable storage device coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: receiving installation data, the installation data corresponding to one or more applications that can be installed and executed on mobile computing devices, the installation data including a number of installation of each of the one or more applications; receiving metadata corresponding to each of the one or more applications; for each application: generating a time series based on the number of installations; processing the time series and the metadata to identify a value representing an acceleration of installations of the application over a time period of the time series; calculating a score based on the value, wherein for each application, the score is based on a fractional installation volume of the application; comparing the score to a threshold score; and adding the respective application to an index of trending applications based on the score being greater than or equal to the threshold score.