Patent ID: 8805966

Claim:
A method for temporarily customizing a download manager on a user computer with different personalities corresponding to each of a plurality of use cases, each personality specifying a plurality of parameters of the download manager, wherein the parameters specify temporary operation of the download manager, each use case corresponding to a combination of a content provider and a download source, the method comprising: downloading the download manager to the user computer; determining a selected use case based on a selected combination of a content provider and a download source; determining that a personality that corresponds to the selected use case is not stored on the user computer; downloading the personality to the user computer based on the determination that the personality is not stored on the user computer, temporarily customizing the download manager by applying the parameters specified by the personality; and downloading content from the download source to the user computer, while the download manager is customized with the personality, wherein the selected use case is one of the plurality of use cases.