Patent ID: 8578423

Claim:
A method for purchasing content, comprising: generating, by a first user equipment device, a display of an interactive content guide comprising a plurality of content listings, wherein the display is generated based on content guide information from a second user equipment device and received by the first user equipment device via a communications path that includes the Internet; receiving, at the first user equipment device, a first user input requesting purchase of the content from a user by selecting a content listing being presented by the interactive content guide on a first display device; receiving, at the first user equipment device, a second user input comprising data that identifies the second user equipment device for consumption of the content requested to be purchased; sending, in response to receiving the first user input and the second user input, from the first user equipment device a communication to the second user equipment device via the communications path based on the first user input and the second user input wherein: the first user input comprises data associated with the content listing of the content requested to be purchased; the first user equipment device outputs to the first display device and the second user equipment device outputs to a second display device, the second display device is different from the first display device; the content requested to be purchased is directed to the second user equipment device for consumption by the user based on the first and the second user inputs; and the second user equipment device and the second display are located within a first same location within a user home and the first user equipment device and the first display are within a second same location remote from the first same location.