Patent ID: 8482671

Claim:
A television installed with a plurality of applications to provide different functions, one or more of the applications comprising state indication functions that being capable of indicating the state of the applications and being capable of updating a current state of the applications, the television comprising: a storage unit; a processor; a display unit; one or more programs stored in the storage unit, executable by the processor, the one or more programs comprising: a signal receiving module operable to receive signals; and a display control module operable to determine the one or more of the applications of the television comprising state indication function upon a condition that the signal receiving module receives a first signal, obtain the current state of each of the one or more applications, and control the display unit to display one or more selectable notifications according to the obtained current states of the determined one or more applications, each of the one or more selectable notifications informing a user of the current state of one application.