Patent ID: 8016192

Claim:
A method for managing electronic transaction applications for a mobile device of an end user, the mobile device issued by an issuer, the method comprising: maintaining, at the mobile device, a data structure that indicates priority for a plurality of electronic transaction applications associated with the mobile device, wherein a first portion of the data structure is protected to prevent end user management access to the first portion, a second portion of the data structure is unprotected to allow end user management access to the second portion, the first portion comprises a first subset of the electronic transaction applications prioritized by the issuer, and the second portion comprises a second subset of the electronic transaction applications prioritized by the user; providing the end user with management access to the second portion of the data structure; receiving end user instructions to modify a current priority of electronic transaction applications in the second portion of the data structure, the end user instructions being obtained from a user interface of the mobile device; the mobile device updating the data structure in response to the end user instructions; and arranging the data structure such that each electronic transaction application in the first subset is of higher priority than any electronic transaction application in the second subset.