A profile of likelihoods of actions that will occur on a computer is stored. The computer may be likely to be off between time periods, e.g., between midnight and 7 am. Some action is taken relative to the actions that are likely to occur, before those actions actually happen....http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US7788219?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7788219 - Preference setting in a computer system