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20100116197 | OPTICAL QUALITY DIAMOND MATERIAL - A CVD single crystal diamond material suitable for use in, or as, an optical device or element. It is suitable for use in a wide range of optical applications such as, for example, optical windows, laser windows, optical reflectors, optical refractors and gratings, and etalons. The CVD diamond material is produced by a CVD method in the presence of a controlled low level of nitrogen to control the development of crystal defects and thus achieve a diamond material having key characteristics for optical applications. | 05-13-2010 |
20140356276 | OPTICAL QUALITY DIAMOND MATERIAL - A CVD single crystal diamond material suitable for use in, or as, an optical device or element. It is suitable for use in a wide range of optical applications such as, for example, optical windows, laser windows, optical reflectors, optical refractors and gratings, and etalons. The CVD diamond material is produced by a CVD method in the presence of a controlled low level of nitrogen to control the development of crystal defects and thus achieve a diamond material having key characteristics for optical applications. | 12-04-2014 |
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20080206569 | Diamond Based Substrate for Electronic Device - The invention relates to a method of manufacture of a substrate for fabrication of semi-conductor layers or devices, comprising the steps of providing a wafer of silicon including at least one first surface suitable for use as a substrate for CVD diamond synthesis, growing a layer of CVD diamond of predetermined thickness and having a growth face onto the first surface of the silicon wafer, reducing the thickness of the silicon wafer to a predetermined level, and providing a second surface on the silicon wafer that is suitable for further synthesis of at least one semiconductor layer suitable for use in electronic devices or synthesis of electronic devices on the second surface itself and to a substrate suitable for GaN device growth consisting of a CVD diamond layer intimately attached to a silicon surface. | 08-28-2008 |
20090152109 | MICROELECTRODE ARRAY - Microelectrode comprising a body formed from electrically non-conducting material and including at least one region of electrically conducting material and at least one passage extending through the body of non-conducting material and the region of conducting material, the electrically conducting region presenting an area of electrically conducting material to a fluid flowing through the passage in use. An electrochemical cell which includes such a microelectrode is also disclosed. | 06-18-2009 |
20090175777 | SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND PREPARED BY CVD - A single crystal diamond prepared by CVD and having one or more electronic characteristics; making the diamond suitable for electronic applications. Also provided is a method of making the single crystal CVD diamond. | 07-09-2009 |
20100006450 | DIAMOND ELECTRODE - An electrode comprising an electrically conducting diamond plate wherein the diamond plate comprises at least one elongate aperture and having an aperture edge length per unit working area of the diamond plate of greater than about 4 mm/mm | 01-14-2010 |
20100155615 | ROBUST RADIATION DETECTOR COMPRISING DIAMOND - A radiation detector comprises a substrate of diamond material and at least one electrode formed at a surface of the substrate. The electrode comprises electrically conductive material deposited in a cavity in the surface of the substrate so that at least a portion of the material of the electrode is below the surface of the substrate. The cavity will typically be an elongate trench or channel in which electrically conductive material such as boron-doped diamond is deposited. In some embodiments, at least two electrodes are located adjacent to one another at the surface of the substrate. In other embodiments, the device has a plurality of electrodes, at least one of which is located at a first surface and at least one of which is located at an opposed second surface of the substrate. In the latter case, an electrode at one surface of the substrate can be connected to an electrode at the opposed surface of the substrate by means of a conductive via, which consists of a through-hole filled or coated with conductive material. Typically, the electrodes are arranged in an interdigitated configuration, each electrode having a plurality of elongate electrode elements. Each such electrode element extends parallel to at least one adjacent electrode element of another electrode. | 06-24-2010 |
20120090997 | MICROELECTRODE ARRAY - Microelectrode comprising a body formed from electrically non-conducting material and including at least one region of electrically conducting material and at least one passage extending through the body of non-conducting material and the region of conducting material, the electrically conducting region presenting an area of electrically conducting material to a fluid flowing through the passage in use. An electrochemical cell which includes such a microelectrode is also disclosed. | 04-19-2012 |
20130202518 | SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND PREPARED BY CVD - A single crystal diamond prepared by CVD and having one or more electronic characteristics; making the diamond suitable for electronic applications. Also provided is a method of making the single crystal CVD diamond. | 08-08-2013 |
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20080229290 | Automatic Formatting of Computer Program Source Code - A method and system is provided for auto formatting changes to computer program source code stored in a code repository. The code comprises a plurality of separately identifiable sections each of which includes non-functional formatting information which differs between at least some of the sections. In response to a user input request a selected source code section is extracted and edited via a user interface. A set of formatting rules is determined automatically from at least the code section being edited. This set of rules is one of a plurality of possible sets corresponding to the separately identifiable sections. The edited code is then formatted according to the determined set of formatting rules and stored in the code repository. | 09-18-2008 |
20110067036 | Method for Determining Relationship Data Associated with Application Programs - A method for determining relationship data associated with application programs in a messaging system, comprising the steps of: responsive to at least one first message event sending a message from a first application to a first destination and at least one second message event retrieving, by a second application, the message from a second destination, intercepting message data associated with the message; analysing the intercepted message data in accordance with one or more rules in order to find one or more message parameters; and in response to finding the one or more message parameters, identifying the first message event and identifying the second message event, determining a relationship associated with the first application and the second application. An apparatus and computer program element for determining such relationship data are also provided. | 03-17-2011 |
20140082634 | Determining Relationship Data Associated with Application Programs - A method for determining relationship data associated with application programs in a messaging system, comprising the steps of: responsive to at least one first message event sending a message from a first application to a first destination and at least one second message event retrieving, by a second application, the message from a second destination, intercepting message data associated with the message; analysing the intercepted message data in accordance with one or more rules in order to find one or more message parameters; and in response to finding the one or more message parameters, identifying the first message event and identifying the second message event, determining a relationship associated with the first application and the second application. An apparatus and computer program element for determining such relationship data are also provided. | 03-20-2014 |
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20090287761 | CACHED MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION VIA HTTP REDIRECTS - A method for distributing cached messages in a load-balanced publish/subscribe messaging network using an HTTP redirect in response to an HTTP client message request is disclosed. The redirect response including a URI at which a next message in a list of sequential messages slated for the HTTP client per the request is located, wherein the HTTP client uses the URI to automatically iterate through and receive the entire list of sequential messages. The method includes that a) the HTTP client initiating a request for a next message in a sequence of messages, b) the HTTP server receiving the request and creating and inserting a client cursor in a message cache for the HTTP a cache location of the requested next message, and returning an HTTP redirect response to the HTTP client including the current client cursor cache location for the requested next message in a location field in the redirect response enabling the HTTP client to automatically access each next message in the sequence and c) the HTTP client receiving the redirect response, opens (sends) a new request to the client cursor location in accordance with the URI location field in the redirect response to secure the next message, Steps b) and c) are repeated until the HTTP server returns a response other than a redirect response, or until the HTTP client fails to respond to a redirect response. The method, system and computer program product supports point-to-point messaging. | 11-19-2009 |
20090287805 | SYSTEM & METHOD FOR NON-HTTP SESSION BASED PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SUPPORT USING PRE-EMPTIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS - The invention includes a publish/subscribe system for publish/subscribe messaging utilizing pre-emptive subscriptions in a cluster of HTTP servers that includes load balancing. The system includes at least one HTTP client in a role of HTTP subscriber, and a set HTTP servers arranged as an HTTP server cluster in communication with each other and the at least one HTTP client in a network infrastructure, where each HTTP server is subscribed to a special topic: admin/subscriptions, maintains a subscription to requested topics for a client and a message history of messages published on that topic. Each server can serve messages to different HTTP clients at different times based on the HTTP client's “cursor” in the HTTP server's message history list, and wherein any HTTP client request for a “next” message on a given requested topic will follow their cursor progress through the message history list. | 11-19-2009 |
20100023587 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RETENTION OF DATA MESSAGES - Subscribers connected to a publish/subscribe message broker receive messages on topic names to which they have subscribed. The subscribers receive any number of messages on each topic to which they have subscribed. When the broker receives a message on a second, pre-specified, topic, associated with a first topic, the broker removes any existing retained message related to the first topic. Thus any subsequent subscribers to the first topic do not receive the retained message when they subscribe, and thus do not receive out-of-date information. If, at a later date, a new message is published on the first topic subscribers will receive the new message if they are still subscribed. | 01-28-2010 |
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20100111106 | APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE DATA UNIT SEGMENTATION AND ARRANGEMENT - Apparatus, computer program products and methods allow inclusion and segmentation of multiple SDUs within a PDU, and generate information (such as header information) necessary to identify, e.g., the position of the segmented SDUs within the PDU. Prior knowledge of the typically used (i.e., predetermined) SDU size is used to perform segmentation operations, hi one exemplary variant, apparatus, methods and computer program products determine if a particular one of a set of input data units (SDUs) is to be segmented in order to fit a portion of the set, including a segment of the particular input data unit, into an output data unit (PDU); segment the input data unit in response to determining the particular input data unit is to be segmented; add the portion of the set to a data portion of the output data unit, and add into the output data unit an indication of a position of the segment in the data portion. In another variant, apparatus, computer program products and methods receive first data units, each of the first data units including a plurality of data portions having a plurality of second data units, each of at least two of the first data units including an indication of a position of a segment of a second data unit in associated ones of the data portions; combine using at least the indications the segments to create a complete second data unit; and output the complete second data unit. | 05-06-2010 |
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20080273463 | Uplink transport format selection - A method includes performing transport format combination selection so as to maximize transmission of higher priority data. The method operates, when scheduled and/or non-scheduled grants are taken into account for a transmission time interval, giving data of a given priority belonging to a scheduled MAC-d flow precedence over any lower priority data, whether belonging to a scheduled or a non-scheduled MAC-d flow; and giving data of a given priority belonging to a non-scheduled MAC-d flow precedence over any lower priority data, whether belonging to a scheduled or a non-scheduled MAC-d flow. In the method, where if the transmission contains any scheduled data, the size of a selected MAC-e protocol data unit is made not to exceed the total of all non-scheduled grants which are applicable for transmission in the transmission time interval; a maximum number of scheduled bits based on a serving grant, after adjustment for compressed frames, and a power offset; and the size of triggered scheduling information, if any. Also disclosed are corresponding apparatus and computer programs. | 11-06-2008 |
20140119346 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A TRANSMITTER IS POWER LIMITED - An apparatus and method of determining whether a transmitter is power limited. A predetermined number is added to an amount of useful data for transmission expressed in bits, thereby to calculate the size of an increased amount of useful data. The predetermined number corresponds to the minimum number of bits required to transmit additional user data and any associated header. A transmission format which has the smallest transport block size with capacity for the increased amount of useful data is then selected from a predetermined group of transmission formats. Each of the group of transmission formats has a different transport block size. It is then determined whether the power required for the transmitter to transmit the selected transmission format exceeds the maximum power available to the transmitter. | 05-01-2014 |
20140126495 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Transmission Resource Utilization - A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided in order to manage transmission of data. In this regard, the method comprises populating a first portion of a transmission data allocation with data of a first data type associated with a first one of a plurality of transmission grants, the plurality of transmission grants defining an allowed amount of transmission data for a plurality of data types, each transmission grant associated with one or more of the data types, populating a second portion of the transmission data allocation with data of a second data type associated with a second one of the plurality of transmission grants, determining, using a processor, that additional space remains in the first portion of the transmission data allocation, and populating the transmission data allocation with data of the second data type equal to a size of the additional space. | 05-08-2014 |
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20110284393 | ANALYTICAL TEST STRIP WITH AN ELECTRODE HAVING ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE AND INERT AREAS OF A PREDETERMINED SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION - An electrochemical-based analytical test strip for the determination of an analyte (e.g., glucose) in a bodily fluid sample (such as a whole blood sample) includes an electrically insulating base layer and a patterned conductor layer (for example, a gold patterned conductor layer) disposed over the electrically-insulating layer. The patterned conductor layer includes at least one electrode with the electrode having electrochemically inert areas and an electrochemically active area(s). Moreover, the electrochemically inert areas and electrochemically active area(s) are of a predetermined size and a predetermined distribution such that electrochemical response of the electrode during use of the electrochemical-based analytical test strip is essentially equivalent to a predetermined electrochemical response. | 11-24-2011 |
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20130047415 | USE OF CHAMBER HEIGHT TO AFFECT CALIBRATION CODE IN TEST STRIP MANUFACTURING - The invention provides a method for varying the intercept of a batch of test strips by varying the height of the strip's sample-receiving chamber. | 02-28-2013 |
20130084591 | ANALYTICAL TEST STRIP WITH ISOLATED BODILY FLUID PHASE-SHIFT AND ANALYTE DETERMINATION SAMPLE CHAMBERS - An analytical test strip (“ATS”) for use with a hand-held test meter in the determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample includes an electrically insulting substrate, a first patterned conductor layer disposed on the electrically insulating substrate and having a working electrode and a reference electrode. The ATS also includes an enzymatic reagent layer disposed on the working electrode, a first patterned spacer layer disposed over the first patterned conductor layer and defining both a first sample-receiving channel and an analyte determination sample chamber within the ATS, and a second patterned spacer layer disposed over the first patterned spacer layer and defining at least a second sample-receiving channel. The ATS further includes a bodily fluid phase-shift sample chamber in fluidic communication with the second sample-receiving channel. The first sample-receiving channel and analyte determination sample chamber are isolated from the second sample-receiving channel and bodily fluid phase-shift sample chamber. | 04-04-2013 |
20140251833 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE FILL DIRECTION AND FILL ERROR IN ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS - Various embodiments for methods and systems that allow for detecting of a direction in which a sample is flowing towards a plurality of electrodes and detecting a fill error of an electrochemical test strip. | 09-11-2014 |
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20130199942 | ELECTROCHEMICAL-BASED ANALYTICAL TEST STRIP WITH FILL-SPEED CONFIGURED REAGENT LAYER - An electrochemical-based analytical test strip (“EBAT”) for the determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample includes an electrically insulating substrate layer with a distal end and a patterned conductor layer that is disposed over the electrically-insulating substrate layer and has a working electrode (“WE”) and a counter/reference electrode (“C/RE”). The EBAT also includes a patterned insulation layer with an electrode exposure window configured to expose a WE exposed portion and a C/RE exposed portion, an enzymatic reagent layer; and a patterned spacer layer. The patterned insulation layer and the patterned spacer layer define a sample receiving chamber with a sample-receiving opening (“SRO”) at the distal end of the electrically insulating substrate layer and that extends across the WE exposed portion and the C/RE exposed portion. Furthermore, the enzymatic reagent layer is disposed over the WE and C/RE exposed portions and extends no more than 400 μm toward the SRO. | 08-08-2013 |
20130341207 | ANALYTICAL TEST STRIP WITH CAPILLARY SAMPLE-RECEIVING CHAMBERS SEPARATED BY STOP JUNCTIONS - An analytical test strip for the determination of an analyte (such as glucose) in a bodily fluid sample (e.g., a whole blood sample) includes a first and second capillary sample-receiving chambers and first and second stop junctions that are disposed between the first and second capillary sample-receiving chambers. The first stop junction defines a discontinuity boundary of the first capillary sample-receiving chamber and the second stop junction defines a discontinuity boundary of the second capillary sample-receiving chamber. In addition, the first stop junction and the second stop junction are disposed such that bodily fluid sample flow between the first capillary sample-receiving chamber and the second capillary sample-receiving chamber during use of the analytical test strip is prevented. | 12-26-2013 |
20130341208 | ELECTROCHEMICAL-BASED ANALYTICAL TEST STRIP WITH INTERSECTING SAMPLE-RECEIVING CHAMBERS - An electrochemical-based analytical test strip for the determination of an analyte (such as glucose) in a bodily fluid sample (for example, a whole blood sample) and/or a characteristic of the bodily fluid sample (for example, hematocrit) includes a first sample-receiving chamber with first and second sample-application openings, and first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes are disposed in the first sample-receiving chamber between the first and second sample-application openings. The electrochemical-based analytical test strip also includes a second sample-receiving chamber and a plurality of electrodes disposed in the second sample-receiving chamber. In addition, the second sample-receiving chamber intersects the first sample-receiving chamber between the first and second electrodes, thereby defining a chamber intersection. | 12-26-2013 |
20130341209 | ANALYTICAL TEST STRIP WITH CAPILLARY SAMPLE-RECEIVING CHAMBERS SEPARATED BY A PHYSICAL BARRIER ISLAND - An analytical test strip for the determination of an analyte (such as glucose and/or hematocrit) in a bodily fluid sample (such as a whole blood sample) includes a first capillary sample-receiving chamber, a second capillary sample-receiving chamber, and a physical barrier island disposed between the first and second capillary sample-receiving chambers. Moreover, the physical island barrier is disposed such that bodily fluid sample flow between the first capillary sample-receiving chamber and the second capillary sample-receiving chamber is prevented during use of the analytical test strip. | 12-26-2013 |