Google has obtained a patent that will help the company remove pirated and "cloned" applications from its store Google Play.
The company will reportedly maintain a database of approved apps that have already been uploaded to the on-line of store, from legitimate developers. All new apps will then be compared against the content of the database before they are approved, in order to discover any similarity with existing apps.
The company will not compare the entire applications against each other, but will compare code, data files, files sound and images. An expert algorithm it will determine the “similarity rating”, determining whether an application is a clone or not.
Source: iguru.gr
