US Patent 7206791 System and method for managing and securing meta data

A method and system for managing meta data for a computing device are disclosed. The method includes collecting meta data resulting from use of the computing device, the meta data including application data usable in an application and context data for identifying context in which the application data are used. The method further includes determining statistical information associated with the collected meta data, wherein the statistical information indicates relationships between the collected meta data, storing the collected meta data and the statistical information in a storage of the computing device, and retrieving, from the storage, application data that would be most appropriate for a current context of using the application based on the context data and the statistical information.