GAME STATE SYNCHRONIZATION AND RESTORATION ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES

摘要

Technology for a method for backing up and restoring mobile game application state across multiple devices is disclosed herein. The method includes running an instance of a game application at a first electronic device, determining a backup event that occurs in the first electronic device, wherein the backup event suggests a backup of application state data and the application state data represent an application state of the game application at the backup event, and transmitting the application state data of the game application to a remote storage service, in response to the backup event. A second electronic device can retrieve the application state data from the remote storage service and restore the game application state.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for playing a mobile game in a distributed operating system, the method comprising:
providing a distributed cloud operating system; running an instance of a game application at a first mobile computing device; identifying a second mobile computing device capable of synchronizing application state data with a cloud storage system operated by the distributed cloud operating system; confirming the second computing device is in a pre-determined group with the first computing device; receiving a signal that the instance of the game application stops running because the first computing device switching to a low power mode; transmitting, to the cloud storage system, application state data representing a game status when the instance of the game application stops; and receiving a notice that the second computing device has downloaded the application state data from the cloud based storage service and restored the game status to a second instance of the game application running at the second computing device.