System and method based on use information obtained from a user terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9489686-B2
Application number	US-201213599378-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2012
Priority date	Aug 31, 2011
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a system and method based on use information of an application obtained from a user terminal. With respect to a communication terminal in which at least one first application and a second application including a function of collecting the use information associated with the first application are installed, in conjunction with the second application, a server for providing a collecting unit to collect the use information collected from a user with respect to the first application, and a recommended application list with respect to the first application based on statistics of the use information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A server comprising:
a storage device that stores a program;
a processor that is configured to execute the program so as to cause the server to perform a method including the steps of:
collecting, by a collecting unit stored at least in part on the storage device, from a communication terminal comprising at least one first application and a second application which is configured to collect use information associated with the first application in conjunction with the second application, use information collected from a user associated with the first application;
providing, by a providing unit, a list of recommended applications based on statistics of the use information with regard to the first application, and
causing a display of the communication terminal to notify the user of the list of recommended applications,

wherein the use information comprises use information indicating that the first application is recommended by the user for a predetermined period of time,
wherein the method further includes setting, by a setting unit, an option of agreeing to provide information with respect to the collected use information and personal information comprising at least one of gender, location of residence, and age of the user according to a request of the user, said setting unit being further configured to individually set the option of agreeing to provide each category of the use information,
wherein the collecting selectively collects the use information and the personal information for which the option of agreeing to provide the information is set from the communication terminal in which the second application is installed, and
wherein the use information and the personal information in which the option of agreeing to provide information is set are utilized for statistics information associated with the first application.

2. The server of claim 1 , wherein the list of recommended applications provided by the providing unit comprises at least one of a first application that is installed by users installing the second application a greater number of times than a predetermined number of installations, a first application that is executed by users executing the second application a greater number of times than a predetermined number of executions, and the first application recommended by users a greater number of times than a predetermined number of recommendations.

3. The server of claim 2 , wherein each use information of each of the first applications has a weight, and wherein each of the first applications included in the list of recommended applications has a total value of the weight that is greater than a predetermined value.

4. The server of claim 1 , wherein the providing provides a reward based on a range of information for which the option of agreeing to provide information is set, and
the reward is used as a criterion for determining a member ranking of the user, or converted to a purchase voucher of the first application.

5. The server of claim 1 , wherein the method further including:
setting, by a setting unit, an option of agreeing to share information with other users with respect to the use information for the each first application installed in the communication terminal, according to a request of the user,
wherein the collecting collects the use information from the first application in which the option of agreeing to share the information with the other users is set.

6. The server of claim 5 , wherein the setting sets an option of agreeing to share the information with all users having a relationship with the user, or when the all users having a relationship with the user are divided into groups, sets an option of agreeing to share the information with a specific group.

7. The server of claim 5 , wherein the list of recommended applications provided by the providing unit comprises at least one of the first application that is installed by users setting an option of agreeing to share the information with the user a greater number of times than a predetermined number of installations, the first application that is executed by users setting an option of agreeing to share the information with the user a greater number of times than a predetermined number of executions, and the first application recommended by users setting an option of agreeing to share the information with the user a greater number of times than a predetermined number of recommendations.

8. The server of claim 5 , wherein the providing provides the user with the use information in real time, when the use information collected from users setting an option of agreeing to share the information with the user.

Assignees

• Lee Haejin
• Shin Jungho
• Lee Jungmin
• Line Corp

Inventors

• Lee Haejin
• Shin Jungho
• Lee Jungmin

Classifications

• H04L67/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0282 Primary

  Rating or review of business operators or products · CPC title

• G06Q30/0631

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06Q30/0207

  Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates · CPC title