US Patent 9558348 Ranking software applications by combining reputation and code similarity

Disclosed are systems and methods to combine a reputation score for a software application publisher or vendor and code analysis techniques to provide a method of ranking software applications. A user downloading a software application may be confident that the software application is reliable and does not contain malicious content based on the ranking applied to the particular software application. Code analysis techniques allow for an application ranking even when there may not be enough historical information about the publisher/vendor to create a solid reputation score. A software application rank may be used internally to a software application store prior to making the software application available to the public.