Patent ID: 8543513

Claim:
Method comprising: receiving activation requests for licensable components in consumer electronics (CE) devices; correlating, using a digital processor operatively communicating with a computer readable storage medium, the requests to request modes by which the requests were received to establish aggregated correlations; correlating, using a digital processor operatively communicating with a computer readable storage medium, the requests to licensable components that were subjects of the requests to establish aggregated correlations; using a digital processor operatively communicating with a computer readable storage medium and accessing the aggregated correlations, determining to prune at least one infrequently used request mode from CE devices; and using the aggregated correlations, using a digital processor to determine to make at least one frequently activated licensable component a subject of an automatic standard license pool and removing the frequently activated licensable component from a list of licensable components that may be individually enabled or activated by individual users post-sale.