Patent ID: 8612741

Claim:
System comprising: a processor; at least one input device operable to input signals to the processor; at least one display communicating with the processor to output signals therefrom; at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium accessible to the processor, wherein the medium bears plural software applications and plural software profile definitions, wherein one of the plural software profile definitions is selected in response to a system and/or a user signal, each software profile when selected enabling a respective set of applications to run on the system, the set of applications in each software profile being different than the set of applications in other software profiles, at least one software profile being a power save software profile for which a user establishes how frequently at least one application in the respective set of applications checks for a network connection, wherein at least one software profile comprises automatically starting an email program and preventing starting of a media service, and wherein the user is not permitted to edit a full software profile in which all available applications are permitted to run on the processor.