Patent ID: 8265658

Claim:
A mobile device comprising: a communication interface communicatively coupling the mobile device to an application service; and a control system associated with the communication interface and adapted to: obtain, from the application service, a list of applications associated with at least one of the group consisting of: a current location of the mobile device and one or more anticipated locations of the mobile device, wherein one of the current location or the one or more anticipated locations comprises an establishment; identify one or more desired applications to be activated from the list of applications; and activate the one or more desired applications wherein in order to activate the one or more desired applications, the control system is adapted to, for each desired application of the one or more desired applications: determine whether the desired application needs to be obtained from the application service; and if the desired application needs to be obtained from the application service, obtain one of the group consisting of the desired application and a reference to the desired application from the application service.