Patent ID: 8391838

Claim:
A security alert system, which is operable to assign a predetermined weight and normalized scale to each of a plurality of security-related parameters related to applications or modules running on a mobile communication device, to determine an instantaneous security level for said device based on a combination of said weighted and scaled parameters, and to alert a user of said device when said instantaneous security level reaches a predefined level; wherein the security-related parameters are weighed by assigning to them a weight from [0-1] and a normalized scale from [0-1] and then determining the security level as follows: 0 ≤ SL = ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ w i ⁢ Si ≤ 1 ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ w i = 1 where SL is the security level, w is the weight, S is the normalized scale, n is the total number of parameters, and i is the ith parameter.