Patent ID: 8694686

Claim:
A device for generating a user experience environment, the user experience environment including at least one displayed icon corresponding with at least one application, the device comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: access a user profile associated with the device in a computing network when the device is connected to the computing network to implement a user experience environment synchronized between the device and at least one other device through the computing network, wherein the user profile comprises information collected during usage of the device and the at least one other device; determine a type of the device; and generate the user experience environment of the device based on the user profile and the type of the device, wherein the user experience environment of the device includes the at least one application, and wherein a first subset of the at least one application is downloaded to the device irrespective of the type of the device, and a second subset of the at least one application is downloaded only to the type of device, and wherein an icon for each application of the at least one application which is not compatible with the device is displayed in a shaded appearance to indicate an incompatibility of said each application with the device.