Patent ID: 8321888

Claim:
A television set, comprising: a television receiver configured to receive television content from any suitable source of television content for display as a picture on a display; a television processor residing within the television receiver; a tutorial Widget configured to run on the television processor to produce video images rendered as a video overlay that overlays the picture on the display; the tutorial Widget being programmed to: load for execution on the television processor as a result of the television receiving a user command to run the tutorial Widget; identify an operating state of the television set; conduct a search for available tutorial videos that are associated with the identified operating state of the television set in order to retrieve a list of available tutorial videos that are associated with the identified operating state of the television set; present the list of available tutorial videos associated with the identified operating state of the television set to the user in the video overlay for selection of a tutorial video by the user; identify a tutorial video selected by a user; retrieve the tutorial video selected by the user; and play the tutorial video selected by the user in the video overlay.