Patent ID: 8862105

Claim:
A method, comprising: responsive to a request for a set of applications available for installation on a mobile device, accessing a user profile associated with the request; filtering a catalog of applications based on an enterprise application availability policy applied to a user attribute in the user profile to select a set of applications, the catalog comprising a superset of applications made available by the enterprise for installation on mobile devices associated with the enterprise and the enterprise application availability policy identifying one or more applications in the catalog to be included in a set of applications to be made available to users having the user attribute; and returning the set of applications in response to the request; wherein the returned set of applications is provided to an enterprise mobile device application management interface configured to display the set of applications to the user via the enterprise application management interface and to provide the ability for the user to select, via the enterprise application management interface, one or more of the displayed applications for installation on the mobile device.