Patent ID: 8862658

Claim:
A method for recording and replaying a network game, the method comprising: copying all game messages sent by a game server to a game client during a game process, wherein the game messages are generated by the game server in a network environment and in response to game process actions of the game client during the game process and wherein the game client is to use the game messages for depicting the game process; and replaying, in the game client, the game process by replaying only the copied game messages in association with the game client sent by the game server to the game client during the game process; wherein the game process is only a game process displayed on the game client during the game process; wherein replaying, in the game client, the game process comprises, creating, in the game client, a virtual interface, wherein the virtual interface simulates an interface between the game server and the game client during the game process, sending the copied game messages via the virtual interface to the game client according to a sequence in which the copied game messages are received from the game server, and replaying the game process by the game client through executing only the copied game messages sent by the game server to the game client during the game process.