Basically, it will let you download videos of other players playing portions of the game that you find too tedious/difficult. In Miyamoto's eyes, this will encourage casual gamers to complete/learn to not suck at Zelda games. Watching the videos ("digest") will let you (optionally?) pick up playing the game from the point they end.
For those alarmed that this indicates a casualization of the Zelda series...I suggest wasting several minutes on skimming parts of the patent itself. It actually seems fairly cool and, best of all, completely optional.
Analysis (w/ Zelda-indicating pics):
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=205631
Actual Patent:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=Nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/Nintendo&RS=AN/Nintendo
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