Patent ID: 7753791

Claim:
A method for providing at least one game attribute in a wireless network, the method comprising: initiating a first instance of a game on a first wireless device, wherein the first instance of the game has at least one instance-specific game attribute related to a particular game situation in the first instance of the game being played on the first wireless device; assigning a unique identifier to the first instance of the game having the at least one instance-specific game attribute related to the particular game situation on the first wireless device; sending the unique identifier from the first wireless device to a second wireless device through a wireless network; wherein upon initiating a second instance of the game on the second wireless device using the unique identifier, the second instance of the game assumes the at least one instance-specific game attribute to recreate the particular game situation in the first instance of the game being played on the first wireless device such that the second instance of the game is played on the second wireless device independently of any participation from the first wireless device, and the first and second instances of the game progress differently from the particular game situation.