Abstract: An exemplary method for providing personalized application search results in a mobile device comprises the steps of receiving a search request from a user, the search request including at least one search keyword and a user identifier, searching an application registry database for a first set of matching applications based on the search keyword, searching an application selection table for a second set of matching applications based on the search keyword and the user identifier, ordering the second set of matching applications based on frequency of use parameters in the application selection table to obtain an ordered second set of matching applications, appending a set of application in the first set of matching applications but not in the second set of matching applications to the end of the ordered second set of matching applications, generating a response to the search request based on the third set of matching applications, and sending the response to the user.

Abstract: An exemplary method for optimizing traffic volume in a communications network comprises the steps of receiving a first file, parsing a header portion of the file to find a reference header, extracting an identifier of a second file in the reference header, determining a nearest location to retrieve the second file based on the identifier, and retrieving the second file based on the determining. In one embodiment, the extracting step includes the step of determining a tag associated with the reference header; the tag including the identifier and an address to download the second file.