Patent ID: 8856322

Claim:
A supervisory portal comprising: an interface configured to receive a request from a child user for permission to take an action using a computing device of the child user, the action being prohibited by a policy established by a supervisory user; a display, wherein the display is configured to present the request to the supervisory user; and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to: receive an input from a supervisory user selectively approving or denying the request; responsive to receiving an input from the supervisory user selectively approving or denying the request, allowing or disallowing the action in the request to be taken by the child user as provided in the input received from the supervisory user; and cause the presentation of one or more bundles to the computing device of the child user, wherein the bundles include configuration settings and applications and at least some of the applications are default applications and the processing unit is further operable to enable an application to be designated as a default application for a bundle; wherein at least some of the default applications are selected by the supervisory user from an application repository that is associated with and under the control of the supervisory user, wherein the child user is related to the supervisory user, wherein the supervisory user controls the application repository by at least determining which default applications are to be published in the application repository; wherein the action is downloading content; wherein the processing unit is further configured to: receive an input from a supervisory user selectively enabling or disabling content that was downloaded by a child user based on the supervisor's approval of the request of a child user; and responsive to receiving the input from the supervisory user selectively enabling or disabling content that was downloaded by a child user based on the supervisor's approval of the request of a child user, enabling or disabling the content as provided in the input received from the supervisory user.