Patent ID: 9245124
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A physical computer readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that are executable by one or more processors cause the following to be performed: an information coordinator system receiving information about current characteristics of one or more applications; receiving information from a user system indicating what applications are available at the user system; retrieving information about a current computing operational effectiveness landscape, the information about current computing operation effective landscape comprising information about particular malware threats or spam outbreaks existing at a given time; based on the information about current characteristics of one or more applications, information indicating what applications are available at the user system and the information about a current computing operational landscape, creating a ranking of applications; and sending, or otherwise making available, the ranking to the user system, the user system having a plurality of applications with similar functionality available on the user system, in that the plurality of applications are stored at the user system, whereafter, at the user system one or more of the applications in the plurality of applications available on the system are selected to activate based on the ranking of applications with respect to the current computing operational landscape while one or more of the other applications in the plurality of applications are changed to a dormant state at the system based on the system determining which applications should be active on the system based on the ranking of applications.