Patent ID: 7293269

Claim:
A method of installing an application feature on a first computer system, wherein the first computer system is capable of communicating with a second computer system when the first and second computer systems are connected, the first computer system being unable to communicate with the second computer system when the first and second computer systems are disconnected and wherein the application feature is stored on the second computer system, the method comprising: automatically identifying at least a first and second user files to be stored on the first computer system, wherein the first user file is of a different type from the second user file; storing the at least first and second user files on the first computer system; evaluating the at least first and second user files and user files previously existing on the first computer system, including executing a first handler routine to evaluate the first user file and executing a second handler routine to evaluate the second user file, to determine one or more application features to be stored on the first computer system to allow execution of the evaluated user files when the first computer system is disconnected from the second computer system; while the first computer system is connected to the second computer system, transferring the one or more application features from the second computer system to the first computer system; storing the one or more application features in the first computer system and disconnecting the first computer system from the second computer system.