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iPhone: Apple to track game scores online?

Xenctuary | March 12, 2008 | News | Mac Company Misc 
MacRumors revisits a previously filed copyright patent to speculate upon Apple planning online score tracking for iPhone games, describing how data could be sent and whether such a feature could even be used to create competitions between players.
While the bulk of the patent details the downloading and syncing of games between iTunes and iPhones/iPods, Apple proposes extending this functionality even further. Apple describes a method for transmitting iPhone/iPod high scores and other achievements to a central community game server.

By compiling high score data, players can compete amongst each other for prizes. All data can be digitally signed so that scores are authenticated.
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    KingX2 | March 16, 2008
    Wow. Is there anything that the iPhone can't do?

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