Patent ID: 8381240

Claim:
A computerized method for providing an indication of an action of a given user consuming content on a client device transmitted from a content distribution system, the method comprising: electronically generating an indication of a change in context for a given user of a client device, the context comprising information regarding an action of the given user with a given one of a plurality of disparate services provided by the content distribution system, the plurality of disparate services including a television service, an online gaming service, and a music service; identifying a television content associated with the change in context for the given user; determining, via an electronic program guide component, one or more alternate times at which the television content associated with the change in context for the given user is available to one or more users in a social network of the given user, wherein the one or more users in the social network of the given user are identified from one or more instant messaging clients; electronically propagating the indication of the change in context for the given user to one or more users in the social network of the given user with contexts in any given one of the plurality of disparate services, the propagated indication of the change in context including the identification of the television content associated with the change in context for the given user and the one or more alternate times at which the television content is available to the one or more users in the social network of the given user; electronically presenting the indication of the change in context for the given user to users in the given user's social network in conjunction with content from the any given one of the plurality of disparate services; and providing the users in the given user's social network within the contexts of the any given one of the plurality of disparate services, an opportunity to schedule recording of the television content associated with the change in context for the given user at the one or more alternate times.