Sony International (Europe) Gmbh

Ern&ouml; Kovacs

Oliver Schramm

Michael Rosinus

The present invention relates to a communication unit and a communication method for communicating data in a communication system, with storage means ( ) for storing a profile data base, said profile data base comprising parameter data describing attributes of the communication system, said parameter data being arranged in parameter sets respectively describing a collection of attributes, whereby the parameter sets are allocated to profile units so that each profile unit comprises at least one parameter set and one parameter set can be allocated to a plurality of profile units, and managing means ( ) for managing said parameter data in said profile data base and for controlling a means ( ) for reading and writing parameter data from and in said storage means ( ). The present invention provides a flexible and efficient way to manage and retrieve profile data in communication systems.

Communication unit and communication method with profile management

A technique for the determination of the current position of a mobile device based on a plurality of geolocation positioning services is proposed. Different position information sources are accessed wirelessly to acquire position information. The position information thereby comprises respectively at least information about the position of the corresponding position information source. At least one of the plurality of accessed position information sources is selected depending on the values of operation parameters, such as for example availability, cost, speed, power consumption and quality of the position information, wherein the operation parameters are associated with the different position information sources. The position of the mobile device is then determined based on the position information of the at least one selected position information source.

Geolocation of mobile devices

System and method for automatic managing geolocation information and associated references for geographic information systems

A component-based control application structure for the dynamic configuration, adaptation and extension of applications in wireless communication is presented. Thereby, a control application (,) for technical elements (,) of a mobile communications device (,) is structured in components of a predetermined configuration (,), wherein the configuration (,) depends on the task to be performed. Each component (,) is provided with its own thread (,). Each component (,) is furthermore provided with a method interface (,) comprising different commands for the control of the operation of the respective component (,). The configuration (,) of the control application (,) can be changed dynamically (,) depending on the current task to be performed by the device.

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Stuttgart, Germany

Ernö Kovacs

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Stuttgart, Germany

Ern&ouml; Kovacs

Ernö Kovacs