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 to cause the one or more processors to:
provide an interface allowing for a connection from one or more users via the one or more network communication interfaces;receive a first indication of an end user identity;receive a second indication of an application;instantiate an emulation environment using the emulation server based at least in part on the first and second indication;receive information from an end user device to interact with the emulation environment;monitor interaction activity and application activity within the emulation environment to create monitored information; andcalculate a reputation score for the application using the monitored information.