Patent ID: 8776219
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment comprising an information coordinator system configured to provide a ranking of applications to user systems, the coordinator system comprising at least one physical processor, and a user system with a plurality of applications with similar functionality at the user system, a method of selecting one or more applications from the plurality of application to activate, the method comprising: the information coordinator system receiving information about current characteristics of one or more applications; receiving information from the 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.