Patent ID: 8516308

Claim:
A method of assessing incompatibility between a mobile device application and mobile devices, the method comprising: providing users access to an electronic catalog, said electronic catalog providing functionality for identifying and downloading mobile device applications; transmitting, to a mobile device, a crash detection component configured to detect when a mobile device application on the mobile device fails to operate properly; receiving, from the mobile device, crash report data, said crash report data reflective of the identity of a mobile device application which failed to operate properly on the mobile device, and data reflective of device resources of the mobile device; analyzing the crash report data, in conjunction with crash report data obtained from other mobile devices, to assess, for a class of mobile devices, whether the mobile application is compatible with said class; incorporating information reflective of a result of said assessment into at least one page of the electronic catalog; said method performed by a computing system that comprises one or more physical servers.