Abstract: An electronic device and method for automatic generation of a sorted list of items related to a seed item comprises a relatedness determinator to compare the seed item with a plurality of further items and to determine a relatedness value for each further item with respect to the seed item. The device also has a clustering engine to cluster the further items by determining a relative relatedness between (among) the further items. Each further item is assigned to one cluster. The device also has a list generator to generate a sorted result list by sorting the further items according to both, their relatedness value and their belonging (or membership) to a cluster in that once an item is added to the sorted list, the relatedness value depending ranking of the further items in that cluster is at least momentary lowered so as to promote adding items of further clusters.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuration of a physical control panel (120). In some embodiments at least one property (128) of a physical control panel (120) is detected at a mobile device (150); a plurality of events (122, 124, 126) that can be generated by the physical control panel (120) are identified; one or more control actions (154) are associated with one or more of the identified events, at the mobile device (150); and those associations are transmitted (159) to a controller (130).

Abstract: An electronic device and method for automatic generation of a sorted list of items related to a seed item comprises a relatedness determinator to compare the seed item with a plurality of further items and to determine a relatedness value for each further item with respect to the seed item. The device also has a clustering engine to cluster the further items by determining a relative relatedness between (among) the further items. Each further item is assigned to one cluster. The device also has a list generator to generate a sorted result list by sorting the further items according to both, their relatedness value and their belonging (or membership) to a cluster in that once an item is added to the sorted list, the relatedness value depending ranking of the further items in that cluster is at least momentary lowered so as to promote adding items of further clusters.

Abstract: The invention relates to a remote control receiver device (100) that is arranged to be in a network with one or more consumer electronic devices (CED1; CED2; CEDN). The remote control receiver device (100) can receive remote control signals (1) from a remote control (20) and can transmit derived control signals (2, 3, 4) for one or more consumer electronic devices (CED1; CED2; CEDN) in the network. Thus, it is not necessary that the individual consumer electronic devices comprises a remote control receiver. The remote control receiver device (100) preferably performs filtering and translation of the received remote control signals, so that the derived control signals transmitted to a consumer electronic device only contains the signals relevant for that consumer electronic device and so that the remote control signals have been interpreted to become useful to the consumer electronic device.

Abstract: A software entity (101) e.g a web-browser, arranged to be run on a control computer (103) which can be networked with controllable devices (104a; 104b) e.g. PDAs and/or Mobile phones to transmit a signal from the control computer to the controllable devices as a result of processing a document (102) which defines operations to be performed by the software entity (101); the control computer (103) is arranged to comprise a collection (106) of control interfaces (107a-d). A respective control interface (107a-d) with a protocol that is compatible with a protocol of the device interface (105a; 105b) of a given device is employed to provide communication between the control computer and the given controllable device. The software entity (101) is arranged to determine which control interface (107) to select from the collection (106) of control interfaces (107a-d) by accessing a statement included in the document (102), which statement specifies the control interface (107a-d) to select.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of presenting a document comprising: requesting by a user for the document to be presented (S200); determining if the document is present within a collection comprising those documents that are allowed to be presented to the user (S202); presenting the document to the user if the document is present within the collection (S204).

Abstract: A computer program forming a browser program (200) when executed on a computer (101), wherein: the program is arranged in a browser structure (300) comprised of program components (301, . . . , 306); and the browser program is arranged to process contents arranged in a data structure e.g. Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) comprised of modules enclosed by XML tags. Each program component in the browser structure matches with a respective module in the data structure. The incorporation or removal of certain functionality at the XML document level corresponds to the addition or removal of a piece of software in the architecture. Consequently, resource-constrained devices are enabled to access information e.g. from the Internet, in an interoperable and compatible manner. The resource constraints concern storage capacity and processing power, but also display size etc.