Sony Group Corporation

Sony Corporation

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Network Communications Europe B.v.

Henrik Sundström

Rickard Ljung

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Lars Nord

Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson

Anders Isberg

Magnus Ola Johansson

Magnus Tillgren

Eduard Popkov

Peter Exner

Johan F Gulliksson

Anders Mellqvist

Andrej Petef

Pär Spjuth

Håkan Grahn

Jan Kasper Martinsen

Magnus Johansson

Hakan Grahn

A method for integrating a replacement device in a cluster of devices includes, by the replacement device, requesting a contextual data structure from a first device of the cluster of devices and/or at least one outside device; obtaining based on the received contextual data structure, contextual data indicative of an environmental context of the replacement device; and providing the contextual data to at least one device of the cluster and/or the outside device(s). The at least one device and/or outside device(s) determining whether the contextual data meets a context criterion of a stored contextual data indicative of contextual data of a replaced device. If so, the replacement device receives from one or more of the first device, the at least one device, or the outside device(s), state data indicative of a known state of the replaced device, and updating the replacement device with the state data.

Method, system, and device for integrating replacement device

The present invention relates to a communication device and to a method each of them being configured to: divide data to be transmitted into at least one data portion; and transmit each data portion during a time, at which the device is to be activated for executing a pre-determined activity, wherein the pre-determined activity comprises at least one corresponding data and/or signal communication and wherein the transmission of the data portion refers to a further activity of the communication device that is different from the pre-determined activity.

Communication device and method for transmitting data

A method for controlling upload of data, performed in an electronic device (), wherein said electronic device is configured to intermittently upload data () to a wireless network to operate as a tracker, said method comprising: obtaining () a current position of the electronic device, determining, dependent on network coverage associated with said position, to either upload data () to the network or postpone () upload of data.

Power saving for device tracking

A radio device () detects a trigger event, which may for example correspond to receiving a paging message (). In response to the trigger event, the radio device () monitors radio channel quality experienced by the radio device (). In response to a condition based on the monitored radio channel quality channel being met, the radio device triggers a data transfer with the cellular network.

Conditional data transmission based on the quality of the radio channel

A method performed in an electronic device for establishing, in an energy-efficient way, a wireless connection to a cellular network, where the electronic device is configured to support wireless connection to a plurality of cellular networks. The method includes obtaining a current position of the electronic device; determining, as a function of the current position, a set of available cellular networks, said set being a subset of the plurality of cellular networks that are supported by the electronic device; and scanning the set of available cellular networks.

Establishing a wireless connection to a cellular network

A processor device executes program code in one or more threads. The processor device detects a call of a function in one of the threads and executes the function in a further thread. Further, the processor device performs a selection between saving a state of the processor device when starting execution of the function in the further thread and not saving the state of the processor device when starting execution of the function in the further thread. In response to a conflict related to the execution of the function in the further thread, the processor device may perform a rollback to a last saved state of the processor device and execute the function in the thread in which it was called.

Memory efficient thread-level speculation

A face is detected and identified in a digital image. A weight is calculated and assigned to the detected face based on characteristics of the face and social media connections between the person identified from the face and a target viewer of the digital image. One or more image effects are applied to the digital image to visually distinguish the detected face from other parts of the digital image and/or in relation to other faces detected in the image.

System and method for visually distinguishing faces in a digital image

A mobile device for rendering or transforming three-dimensional images is disclosed. The mobile device determines a distance and/or location of a user relative to the device and adjusts the three-dimensional image to provide improved viewing of the three-dimensional image at the sensed distance and/or location.

Proximity assisted 3D rendering

An electronic device for determining usability of a coded file in an application includes at least one file matching unit associated with an application, which receives at least one property of a code file, matches the property against the application, generates an indication indicating if the file can be used in the application or not based on the matching, and associates the indication with the coded file for later enabling a decision about use of the file in the application.

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Södra Sandby, Sweden

Henrik Sundström