Patent ID: 7972215

Claim:
A method for organizing the presentation of information related to gaming software, the method comprising: displaying, by an operating system of a computing device of a user, a window of a gaming activity center, wherein the window includes a game pane and an invited buddies pane and a chat pane; displaying, in the game pane, a list of gaming software installed on the computing device; establishing a connection to a network; displaying a list of downloadable gaming software available for download over the network from a service provider; receiving a selection of a selected game of the list of downloadable gaming software; downloading the selected game of the list of downloadable gaming software in response to the selection; causing the installation of the selected game on the computing device; adding the selected game to the list of gaming software installed on the computing device; displaying, in the invited buddies pane, a list of buddies invited by the user to play the selected game; displaying, in the chat pane, a text entry field, wherein the chat pane is configured to enable the user to hold chat sessions with at least one of the invited buddies via the text entry field.