User Driven Emulation of Applications

摘要

Systems and methods allow a user to select one or more applications that are intended to be downloaded to a device (e.g., phone, tablet, PC) and create an emulation environment for testing aspects of the one or more applications prior to download. The emulation environment can be virtual (via emulation or virtual machine) or instrumented by remotely controlling actual hardware. Metrics collected from the emulation environment can include security and usability related aspects of the applications. Interaction between the applications themselves, the applications and other resources, and the user and the applications (e.g., configuration preferences, usage patterns) can be monitored by systems facilitating hosting of the emulation environment. For example, collected metrics can be used to create a measure for security, reputation, user-preference, etc. regarding the applications. Metrics can be shared amongst other potential users to assist in their purchase or usage of the applications.

主权项

1. An emulation server comprising:
one or more processors; one or more network communication interfaces; and a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory stores instructions that when executed cause at least some of the one or more processors to:
instantiate an emulation environment using the emulation server based at least in part on an end user identity and an application to be downloaded to a user device;configure the emulation environment responsive to end user input;collect user reputation metrics for the application based on user interaction activity and application activity in the emulation environment;save the configured emulation environment; andcalculate a reputation score for the application responsive to user reputation metrics collected from a plurality of users.