Patent ID: 8131991

Claim:
System comprising: processor; at least one input device useful by a person to input signals to the processor; at least one tangible computer-readable storage medium accessible to the processor; at least one display communicating with the processor to output signals therefrom; the medium bearing plural software applications and plural software profile definitions for selection of one of the profile definitions in response to a system and/or user signal, each profile when selected enabling a respective set of applications to run on the system, the set of applications in each profile being different than the set of applications in other profiles, at least one profile being a power save profile for which a user establishes how frequently at least one application in the respective set of applications checks for a network connection, wherein a user is permitted to edit only some, but not all, of the software profiles, wherein the user is not permitted to edit a full software profile in which all available applications are permitted to run on the processor.