Patent ID: 8768850

Claim:
A license apparatus configured to manage one or more licenses on behalf of one or more users associated with the license apparatus, the license apparatus comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause at least one of the one or more processors to: enable the receipt of information corresponding to a permitted use for a user to use one or more content titles on a plurality of content protection systems; receive a request from the user via at least one content protection system of the plurality of content protection systems for an inventory of at least one content title for which the user has a permitted use on the at least one content protection system of the plurality of content protection systems; authenticate the user as an authenticated user based at least in part on authentication information provided by the user; and transmit an inventory of the content titles for which the authenticated user has a permitted use on the at least one content protection system of the plurality of content protection systems based at least in part on the information corresponding to a permitted use.