Patent ID: 8840476

Claim:
A game system comprising: a video source configured to provide a streaming video to a first client geographically remote from the video source, the streaming video being generated at the video source and being based on a state of a video game; and a download manager configured to download executable content of the video game from a code source to the first client via a network while the streaming video is being provided to the first client from the video source; wherein the video source is configured to generate a first streaming video based on a point of view of a first user and a second streaming video based on a point of view of a second user, and to provide the first and second streaming videos to the first client and a second client respectively; transition logic configured to transition the generation of the first streaming video from the video source to the first client without interrupting a game session of the video game, the transition logic configured to determine when an executable subset of the executable content has been provided to the first client, the transition logic further configured to initiate execution of the executable subset on the first client; wherein the state of the video game is dependent on commands received from the first and second clients both prior to and following the transition.