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20100105060 | FAST RESULTS HYBRID CAPTURE ASSAY ON AN AUTOMATED PLATFORM - The present invention comprises a method that provides fast and reliable results for detecting the presence of a target nucleic acid molecule in a sample. | 04-29-2010 |
20100159463 | FAST RESULTS HYBRID CAPTURE ASSAY AND SYSTEM - The present invention comprises a method that provides fast and reliable results for detecting the presence of a target nucleic acid molecule in a sample. | 06-24-2010 |
20110196146 | METHODS, COMPOSITIONS, AND KITS FOR RECOVERY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS OR PROTEINS FROM FIXED TISSUE SAMPLES - Methods and materials for improving nucleic acid or protein recovery from samples preserved in liquid cytological preservative solutions by utilizing scavenging agents, such as hydrazine- and hydrazide-containing compounds, are provided. Lysis solutions comprising hydrazine- and hydrazide-containing compounds and kits comprising the same are also provided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110217705 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC PURIFICATION AND MULTIPLEX ANALYSIS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS - Methods and materials for determining the presence of at least one nucleic acid in a sample are provided, said methods comprising (1) a purification step using sequence specific hybrid capture; (2) an amplification step; and (3) a detection step using two separate sequence-specific polynucleotide probes. Also provided are nucleic acids comprising SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 727 and nucleic acid probes and probe sets comprising the same. | 09-08-2011 |
20120045756 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC PURIFICATION AND MULTIPLEX ANALYSIS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS - Methods and materials for determining the presence of at least one nucleic acid in a sample are provided, said methods comprising (1) a purification step using sequence specific hybrid capture; (2) an amplification step; and (3) a detection step comprising contacting the target nucleic acid with a plurality of detectably labeled nucleic acid detection probes, wherein each (a) bears a different detectable label from the other detection probes, and/or (b) has a different melting temperature from probes bearing the same detectable label. Also disclosed are compositions and kits for use in such a method. | 02-23-2012 |
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20120033237 | GREEN PRINTING: RE-PURPOSING A DOCUMENT TO SAVE INK AND PAPER - Green printing is utilized to repurpose a document. An indication is received that a printout of a document from a printer has been requested. The document has content with a format that would result in a first quantity of pages being printed. The content is grouped into one or more regions. Further, one or more transformations are applied to the content for each region such that the printer prints the document with the content in a transformed format that results in a second quantity of pages being printed without falling below a predetermined readability threshold. The second quantity of pages is less than the first quantity of pages. Further, the one or more transformations being applied to the document may result in a second quantity of ink being utilized to print the document such that the second quantity of ink being less than the first quantity of ink. | 02-09-2012 |
20130128301 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPURPOSING E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE TO SAVE PAPER AND INK - E-mail correspondence is repurposed to save paper and ink. An indication that a printout of e-mail correspondence from a printer has been requested is received. Further, a plurality of e-mail messages that belong to an e-mail conversation tree is detected. In addition, the plurality of e-mail messages in the e-mail conversation tree is reordered according to a respective timestamp associated with each e-mail message in the plurality of e-mail messages. The respective timestamp indicates a time of transmission. A root e-mail message is determined according to an earliest respective timestamp. The root e-mail message is a root node of the e-mail conversation tree. Further, a plurality of content blocks from the root e-mail message is recorded as a set of print blocks. In addition, a plurality of subsequent e-mail message content blocks with the set of print blocks. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128314 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPURPOSING A WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT TO SAVE PAPER AND INK - A word processing document is repurposed to save paper and ink. An indication is received that a printout of a word processing document from a printer has been requested. Further, the content is segmented into one or more regions according to a set of grouping rules, the set of grouping rules defining a region has having at least one homogeneous characteristic. In addition, one or more potential transformations are filtered for each region to generate one or more filtered potential transformations based on a set of rules that restricts a transformation according to a region type. The region type is determined by the at least one homogeneous characteristic for each region. Further, a cost function is evaluated for each of the one or more filtered potential transformations according to one or more appearance attributes for the word processing document. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128315 | CONTENT-AWARE METHOD FOR SAVING PAPER AND INK WHILE PRINTING A PDF DOCUMENT - A PDF document is repurposed to save paper and ink. Preprocessing is performed on the PDF document. The PDF document has a first quantity of pages of content and a first quantity of ink. Further, complexity analysis is performed on the PDF document. In addition, a document object model based on the PDF document is created. In addition, content re-layout is performed on the PDF document based on the content repurposing such that a printer prints the PDF document with the content in a transformed format that results in a second quantity of pages being printed without falling below a predetermined readability threshold and a second quantity of ink being utilized. The second quantity of pages is less than the first quantity of pages. The second quantity of ink is less than the first quantity of ink. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132817 | PORTABLE PAGE TEMPLATE - Similarity between a first web document and a second web document based on a similarity threshold is determined. The second web document has a portable page template associated therewith that includes one or more predetermined transformations that were previously applied to the second web document. In addition, one or more objects in the second web document are addressed upon the similarity threshold being met such that a tolerance threshold for one or more modifications to the second web document is met. A user is provided with the portable page template after the addressing of the one or more objects in the web document so that the portable page template automatically applies the one or more transformations, which were previously applied to the second web document, to the first web document. | 05-23-2013 |
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20120060110 | NOTIFICATION BAR USER INTERFACE CONTROL - Various embodiments provide a notification bar user interface control that is designed to help users maintain focus on their browsing activities, while offering notifications in the form of suggestions. In at least some embodiments, the notification bar user interface control is non-modal and is presented at a location within the browsing field-of-view that is selected to reduce user distraction. Further, in at least some embodiments, the notification bar user interface control is presented in a manner which overlays content of the web page and thus, does not cause layout of the web page to be changed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066346 | REPUTATION CHECKING OBTAINED FILES - A Web browser of a computing device downloads or otherwise obtains a file. File information identifying the file is obtained and is sent to a remote reputation service. Client information identifying aspects of the computing device can also optionally be sent to the remote reputation service. In response to the file information (and optionally client information), a reputation indication for the file is received from the remote reputation service. A user interface for the Web browser to present at the computing device is determined, based at least in part on the reputation indication, and presented at the computing device. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066612 | DOWNLOAD BAR USER INTERFACE CONTROL - Various embodiments provide a download bar user interface control that is designed to help users maintain focus on their browsing activities, while offering notifications regarding a file download. In at least some embodiments, the download bar user interface control is non-modal and is presented at a location within the browsing field-of-view that is selected to reduce user distraction. Various embodiments also provide a download manager user interface that enables multiple download-related tasks to be performed. In at least some embodiments, the download manager user interface is presented responsive to input to the download bar user interface control. Further to some embodiments, the download bar user interface control can be closed responsive to the download manager user interface being presented and download-related notifications and options transferred from the download bar user interface control to the download manager user interface. | 03-15-2012 |
20140013001 | PARALLEL PROBING FOR EFFICIENT PROXY SELECTION IN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS - In one or more embodiments, clients in various networks can proactively probe multiple proxies that are returned to the client. Clients can sort the proxies based on various parameters, such as connection time parameters as well as other parameters, and utilize the fastest or one of the fastest proxies available, or select a proxy based on other parameters that indicate the proxy is reliable. In this manner, slow or unreliable proxies can be avoided. | 01-09-2014 |
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20140050383 | SINGLE SCAN MULTI-PROCEDURE IMAGING - A method includes receiving a signal indicative of a single user selected imaging protocol for scanning a patient. The imaging protocol includes parameters for two or more of a bone mineral density, a fat composition, or an aortic calcium imaging procedures. The method further includes performing a single scan of the patient using the single user selected protocol. The method further includes generating a single set of image data for the two or more of a bone mineral density, a fat composition, or an aortic calcium imaging procedures. | 02-20-2014 |
20150087999 | SINGLE SCAN MULTI-PROCEDURE IMAGING - A method includes receiving a signal indicative of a single user selected imaging protocol for scanning a patient. The imaging protocol includes parameters for two or more of a bone mineral density, a fat composition, or an aortic calcium imaging procedures. The method further includes performing a single scan of the patient using the single user selected protocol. The method further includes generating a single set of image data for the two or more of a bone mineral density, a fat composition, or an aortic calcium imaging procedures. | 03-26-2015 |