Patent ID: 9740852
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of for blocking an application from being installed on a mobile communications device, the method comprising: receiving at a server computer from the mobile communications device, the mobile communications device not having installed the application, data pertaining to the application including one or more of application name, application size, application SHA1 value, application version, application metadata, application traffic IP address, application communication port and URL associated with the application, and information pertaining to the mobile communications device; processing, by the server computer, the data and the information to determine an assessment for the application, the assessment being based upon an analysis of an instance of the application or a similar application in a virtual or physical device using data and information received by the server computer from sources other than the mobile communications device, the assessment including an assessment value from a graduated series of assessment values; and providing the assessment to the mobile communications device, the assessment value causing the installation of the application to be blocked when: (i) the mobile communications device compares the assessment value to a permitted range of assessment values, the permitted range being set by a user or an administrator of the mobile communications device before the assessment is provided to the mobile communications device; and (ii) the mobile communications device determines that the assessment value is not in the permitted range.