Patent ID: 8621094

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising one or more tangible computer-readable storage devices having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform an act comprising: receiving a request, at an entertainment access service from a first device, for status information concerning a user permitted to receive entertainment content over a communications network from the entertainment access service, the entertainment access service managing entertainment content on a plurality of third-party content providers for a plurality of users based on a user's identity, the managing comprising determining whether a user may download content to a device; collecting the status information, at the entertainment access service, identifying: entertainment content available to the user, one or more usage rights governing the user's right to use the entertainment content, and two or more devices associated with the user, including the first device, that are capable of rendering, and permitted to render, the entertainment content; presenting the status information to the user as a first set of graphical icons each representing an entertainment content available to the user together with a second set of a plurality of graphical icons each representing a device registered with the entertainment access service as associated with the user; and presenting the status information in a predetermined format selected, by the entertainment access service, at least in part according to specifications of the first device.