Patent ID: 8255902
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining the potential impact of an application on the health of a client computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: detecting, at the client computing device, an application that has yet to be installed on the client computing device; identifying, at the client computing device, a unique identifier associated with the application; transmitting, from the client computing device to a server, a request for a device-health-impact score for the application, wherein the request uniquely identifies the application using the unique identifier; receiving, at the client computing device, the device-health-impact score for the application from the server, wherein the device-health-impact score identifies the potential impact of the application on the health of the client computing device and is calculated based at least in part on information obtained by the server from at least one additional client computing device on which the same application has previously been installed; determining, at the client computing device based at least in part on the device-health-impact score received from the server, whether to install the application on the client computing device.