Patent ID: 11870758
Assignee: DIVX, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method for certifying an application for a consumer electronics product, the method comprising:
receiving application identifier data, where the application identifier data represents information about at least one aspect of an application that remains static throughout all instances where the application is deployed and comprises at least one hash of a part of at least one file of the application, and the at least one hash can be used to authenticate the at least one file of the application;
storing an application identifier on a server so that the application identifier data is associated with the application identifier and application;
storing the application identifier on a device;
extracting the application identifier from communications sent from the device;
retrieving application identifier data associated with the application identifier; and
displaying the application identifier and application identifier data in human-readable format.