Patent ID: 9005028
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: A63F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of challenging another person to a video game, the method comprising: receiving by a server, an indicator that a first person playing a first instance of a video game has met or exceeded a predetermined goal in the video game; preparing a message indicating that the first person has met or exceeded the predetermined goal; sending the message to an electronic device associated with a second person with a selectable element enabled to execute a second instance of the video game for the second person at a specified point of the video game associated with the predetermined goal; retrieving from an electronic device associated with the first person, a game state condition of the first instance of the video game; and executing by the electronic device associated with the second person, the second instance of the video game using the retrieved game state condition in response to a selection of the selectable element.