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Seamlessly switching between modes in a dual-device tutorial system

  • US 10,581,981 B2
  • Filed: 03/24/2016
  • Issued: 03/03/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a tutorial system comprising:

  • presenting, at a display of a supporting device communicatively coupled with a primary device, an initial information presentation;

    detecting, at the supporting device, a user interaction;

    determining, by the supporting device whether the user interaction is an event message from the primary device to the supporting device indicating a user interaction with the primary device for a type of event;

    in response to the determination that the user interaction is the event message received from the primary device to the supporting device indicating the user interaction with the primary device;

    performing an operation on the supporting device in a tutorial mode, wherein performing the operation in the tutorial mode comprises;

    determining, by the supporting device, interactive explanatory information requested to be displayed on the supporting device in the tutorial mode, wherein the interactive explanatory information is based on the type of event identified in the event message received from the primary device;

    retrieving, by the supporting device, the interactive explanatory information requested by the primary device based on the type of event identified in the event message;

    presenting the interactive explanatory information describing the primary device at the display of the supporting device, the interactive explanatory information based at least in part on the type of event identified in the event message; and

    saving state information for the tutorial mode such that a subsequent operation in the tutorial mode is based in part on the saved state information for the tutorial mode.

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