Patent ID: 8266648

Claim:
A method of using a remote media guidance application implemented on remote user equipment, the method comprising: establishing a communications path between the remote media guidance application and target user equipment, wherein the target user equipment provides packages of television programming to users; requesting, from the remote media guidance application, that subscription data be provided from the target user equipment to the remote media guidance application, wherein the subscription data indicates television programming a user is authorized to access, wherein the target user equipment is instructed to tune to one or more channels associated with the packages of television programming and determines whether the one or more channels are allowed to be viewed by the user; wherein the subscription data is generated in response to requesting that the subscription data be provided from the target user equipment to the remote media guidance application; receiving the subscription data using the remote media guidance application; and enabling the remote media guidance application to utilize the subscription data to determine whether the target user equipment is authorized to receive a particular package of television programming from a remote server and display programming from the particular package of television programming to the user.