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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2023
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.