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Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015

Filed:

May. 30, 2012
Applicants:

Timothy M. Wyatt, San Francisco, CA (US);

Tim Strazzere, Oakland, CA (US);

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, San Francisco, CA (US);

Yogesh Swami, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Timothy M. Wyatt, San Francisco, CA (US);

Tim Strazzere, Oakland, CA (US);

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, San Francisco, CA (US);

Yogesh Swami, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

LOOKOUT, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 11/3409 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0038 (2013.01); G06F 11/3452 (2013.01); G06F 2201/81 (2013.01); G06F 2201/865 (2013.01); G06F 2201/88 (2013.01);
Abstract

A crawler program collects and stores application programs including application binaries and associated metadata from any number of sources such as official application marketplaces and alternative application marketplaces. An analysis including comparisons and correlations are performed among the collected data in order to detect and warn users about pirated or maliciously modified applications.


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