Downloading visual assets

A system for downloading visual assets, comprising:

• a control component including at least one processing component;
• at least one memory operatively coupled to the control component;
• a plurality of visual assets stored on the at least one memory, each visual asset of the plurality of visual assets being associated with at least one workload of a plurality of workloads;
• and
• a registry stored on the at least one memory, the registry including information regarding prior usage of the plurality of workloads;
• wherein the control component is configured to:
• determine a need to download one or more visual assets associated with the plurality of workloads;
• determine a priority ranking of a plurality of n workloads of the plurality of workloads based at least partially on the prior usage of the plurality of workloads, where n is less than a total number of workloads in the plurality of workloads;
• download one or more visual assets associated with the plurality of n workloads based on the priority ranking at a nominal transmission rate;
• and
• download one or more visual assets associated with one or more remaining workloads of the plurality of workloads at a reduced priority transmission rate compared with the nominal transmission rate associated with the downloading of the plurality of n workloads.

One or more computer-readable media bearing one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processing components, perform operations for downloading visual assets, the operations comprising:

• determining a need to download one or more visual assets associated with a plurality of workloads of one or more applications;
• determining a priority ranking of a plurality of n workloads of the plurality of workloads based at least partially on prior usage of the plurality of workloads, where n is less than a total number of workloads in the plurality of workloads;
• downloading one or more visual assets associated with the plurality of n workloads based on the priority ranking at a nominal transmission rate;
• and
• downloading one or more visual assets associated with one or more remaining workloads of the plurality of workloads at a reduced priority transmission rate compared with the nominal transmission rate associated with the downloading of the plurality of n workloads.