Personalized Application Recommendation System Based on Usage Statistics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional application download services primarily categorize applications for users, lacking personalized recommendations based on actual usage patterns, which limits user engagement and service participation.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that collect usage information from user terminals to provide personalized application recommendations, offering points and customized lists based on installation, execution, and recommendation statistics, while allowing users to share information optically and receive real-time feedback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If applications are provided through classification categories, then users can find applications, but personalized recommendations based on actual usage patterns are not achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidusage information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system collects usage information from users (installation, execution, recommendation data) and uses this feedback to generate personalized application recommendations. The server receives usage data from user terminals, analyzes it, and provides customized recommendation lists that adapt to individual user behavior patterns, thereby resolving the contradiction between providing applications and achieving personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of recommendation generation from static category-based classification to dynamic usage-pattern-based selection. By analyzing actual usage parameters (installation count, execution frequency, recommendation frequency) and changing the recommendation approach accordingly, the system achieves personalization while maintaining comprehensive application coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If usage information is collected from users, then personalized recommendations can be provided, but user information privacy concerns may arise

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidprivacy concern
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to voluntarily provide usage information in exchange for personalized recommendations and points. Users actively participate by installing the second application and allowing information collection, thereby controlling their own data sharing. This self-service approach reduces privacy concerns by making information provision optional and user-driven rather than mandatory or intrusive.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that collects, processes, and utilizes usage information to generate recommendations. The server mediates between users and applications by analyzing usage data and providing customized recommendation lists, thereby managing privacy concerns through centralized, controlled data processing rather than direct user-to-application data exposure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If points are provided based on usage information, then user engagement is encouraged, but service complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser participationVSAvoidservice system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the service into distinct components: a first application for basic functionality, a second application for information collection, and a server for processing and recommendation generation. This segmentation allows the points-based engagement system to be implemented through modular components, reducing overall service complexity while maintaining high user participation through gamified rewards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9489686B2System and method based on use information obtained from a user terminal
Publication Date: 2016.11.08 LY CORP
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AI summary

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.