Patent ID: 8777751

Claim:
A method for updating a computing application at a game device participating in a multi-participant computing application game comprising: transmitting, from the game device of a first participant in the multi-participant computing application game, data indicating a second object interaction by the first participant occurring after a first object interaction by the first participant; and after said transmitting, receiving update data at the game device of the first participant, said update data identifying at least one object interaction by a second participant in the multi-participant computing application game occurring between the first and the second object interactions by the first participant; if an identified object interaction by the second participant is not identical to the second object interaction by the first participant, replicating the identified object interaction of the received update data at the game device of the first participant; and otherwise, if an identified object interaction by the second participant is identical to the second object interaction by the first participant, instructing the game device of the first participant to appear to the first participant as though the first participant performed the identified object interaction even though the identified object interaction was previously performed by the second participant and appeared to the second participant as though the second participant performed the identified object interaction.