Patent ID: 8562435

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a memory to store instructions; and a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor, responsive to executing the instructions, performs operations comprising: storing, in association with a profile, a plurality of game-related screen shots, each portraying a respective plurality of graphic user interface elements for presentation at a touch screen display; recording, for each of the plurality of game-related screen shots, a first association between a plurality of gaming application actions and the respective plurality of graphic user interface elements; recording a second association between each of the plurality of game-related screen shots and a corresponding gaming venue state of a plurality of gaming venue states; initiating communications with a video gaming system that is engaged in presenting a video game that presents any one of the plurality of gaming venue states; detecting that the video gaming system has presented a first gaming venue state of the plurality of gaming venue states; identifying, according to the profile, a first game-related screen shot of the plurality of game-related screen shots corresponding to the first gaming venue state according to the second association; presenting the first game-related screen shot at the touch screen display portraying a first respective plurality of graphic user interface elements; receiving from the touch screen display, a first stimulation responsive to a selection of a selected one of the first respective plurality of graphic user interface elements; determining, according to the profile, a first selected one of the plurality of gaming application actions corresponding to the selected one of the first respective plurality of graphic user interface elements according to the first association; and transmitting the first selected one of the plurality of gaming application actions to the video gaming system to control a presentation of the video game.