Patent ID: 8771076

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising: a non-transitory computer useable storage medium to store a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform operations to synchronize a portable gaming profile with a video gaming system, the operations comprising: communicate with a wireless device to store gaming profile data generated at a first video gaming system for a user of the first video gaming system on a data store of the wireless device, wherein the gaming profile data is transferred from the first video gaming system to the wireless device over a wireless signal sent from the first video gaming system to the wireless device, the gaming profile data descriptive of information relating to the user; wherein the wireless device is a separate device from a gaming controller, wherein the gaming controller is a handheld electronic device to provide user input into the video gaming system; receive the gaming profile data at a second video gaming system from the data store of the wireless device over a wireless signal sent from the wireless device to the second video gaming system; and synchronize the gaming profile data with a gaming profile to operate on the second gaming system, wherein the gaming profile is synchronized with the portable gaming profile on the wireless device.