Rich Search Over and Deep Integration with Applications

An application search system may maintain an index of applications available from multiple different application stores, and includes parameters, such as features and/or content of the applications. When a user submits a query, the system may derive contextual information pertaining to a user device...

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Main Authors GILMORE ERIC P, MACBETH STEVEN WILLIAM, JIANG ZHAOWEI (CHARLIE), VIOLA PAUL A, TULLIS STEVEN CHARLES
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 17.05.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:An application search system may maintain an index of applications available from multiple different application stores, and includes parameters, such as features and/or content of the applications. When a user submits a query, the system may derive contextual information pertaining to a user device used to submit the query, applications installed on a particular user device and/or usage information for installed applications. The system then may, in one example, determine one or more applications relevant to the search query and, depending on the contextual information derived, may provide an entry point to access a particular application at a task level, may prompt the user to install the application, or may provide a web result related to the particular application.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20100945061