Patent ID: 8301699

Claim:
A method, comprising: executing a first application and a second application on a computer, each application having a feature set; determining, by the computer, a user status of the first application executing on the computer, the user status of the first application being descriptive of a particular feature of the feature set of the first application that is currently activated by a user, the particular feature being one of a plurality of different features of the feature set of the first application that are activatable by the user; and dynamically adjusting, by the computer, the feature set of at least the second application executing on the computer in response to the user status of the first application executing on the computer, to limit one or more features of the feature set of the second application that correspond to the particular feature of the feature set of the first application that is currently activated by the user, yet allow one or more other features of the feature set of the second application that do not correspond to the particular feature of the feature set of the first application that is currently activated by the user.