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20090273433 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY PROGRAMMING A NEW BALLAST ON A DIGITAL BALLAST COMMUNICATION LINK - A method for replacing a previously-installed lighting control device with a newly-installed lighting control device in a lighting control system provides for automatic programming of the newly-installed device if there is only one newly-installed device in the system. The system comprises a controller interconnected to the newly-installed device by a communication link. The controller stores a short address and configuration information of the previously-installed device in memory and assigns the short address of the previously-installed device to the newly-installed device. The controller is operable to transmit the configuration information associated with the previously-installed device to the newly-installed device in response to determining that there is only one newly-installed device in the system. The controller is operable to undo the completed address assignment by unassigning the short address from the newly-installed device if there is more than one newly-installed device in the system. | 11-05-2009 |
20100117620 | METHOD OF LOAD SHEDDING TO REDUCE THE TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION OF A LOAD CONTROL SYSTEM - A method of determining a setpoint of a load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load located in a space, the method comprising the steps of initially setting the value of the setpoint equal to a desired level; limiting the value of the setpoint to an occupied high-end trim if the space is occupied; limiting the value of the setpoint to a daylighting high-end trim determined by a daylighting procedure; and subsequently reducing the value of the setpoint in response to a load shed parameter. | 05-13-2010 |
20100117621 | METHOD OF LOAD SHEDDING TO REDUCE THE TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION OF A LOAD CONTROL SYSTEM - A method of determining a setpoint of a load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load located in a space, the method comprising the steps of initially setting the value of the setpoint equal to a desired level; limiting the value of the setpoint to an occupied high-end trim if the space is occupied; limiting the value of the setpoint to a daylighting high-end trim determined by a daylighting procedure; and subsequently reducing the value of the setpoint in response to a load shed parameter. | 05-13-2010 |
20110115293 | METHOD FOR REPLACING A LOAD CONTROL DEVICE OF A LOAD CONTROL SYSTEM - The invention regards a system and method for using a handheld programming device to configure a lighting control system wirelessly. In one embodiment, at least one device configured with a processing section is installed in the lighting control system. A communications receiver that is operable to receive a signal from the handheld programming device is also installed in the lighting control system, wherein the signal includes an instruction for configuring the lighting control system. Further, the signal is wirelessly sent from the handheld programming device to the communications receiver, and the instruction is transmitted from the communications receiver to a device in the system. The instruction functions to configure the lighting control system. | 05-19-2011 |
20110284640 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CARDS AND DEVICES OPERABLE TO COMMUNICATE VIA LIGHT PULSING - A card is provided with a light sensor operable to receive information via light emitted from a display screen or another source of light. Accordingly, a mobile telephonic device or portable computer (e.g., tablet computer) may communicate information to a card via light pulses. Information communicated via light may include, for example, points balances, credit balances, debit balances, transaction history, software updates, coupons, promotions, advertisements or any other type of information. | 11-24-2011 |
20120028702 | PAYMENT CARDS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GAME ACTIONS WITH PAYMENT DATA - Payment cards and devices are provided that allow a user to select an action associated with a video game. Such a video game may be, for example, a video game operated on a remote server and operable to be accessed by multiple players such as a multiplayer game accessed via a social networking website. Accordingly, a user may, when the user is away from his/her computer, perform an in-game option by making a payment. Particularly, a user may select on a payment card a button associated with a particular game action, game action data may be routed to a game server such that the user's action is performed in a game associated with the user, and payment data may be authorized via a payment authorization service. In doing so, a user may perform actions in a game while the user is shopping. Game actions made with a payment device may be unique from game actions performed on non-payment devices (e.g., the user's laptop). | 02-02-2012 |
20120286928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE AUTHORIZATIONS - A mobile device may receive security credentials from a contactless device via a contactless communication channel to authorize functions that may be performed by the mobile device. For example, purchase transactions may be authorized to be completed by a mobile device after payment information communicated from a physical payment card to the mobile device is confirmed to match at least a portion of payment information stored within a memory of the mobile device. A mobile device may forward the security credentials to a network entity for remote authorization of a requested function. | 11-15-2012 |
20120286936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS FOR CARDS AND MOBILE DEVICES - A card may be formed using two or more printed circuit boards. Each printed circuit board may include one or more RFID antennas, RFID chips and a processor. A processor on a board may transfer data to one or more RFID chips on the same board. Alternately, a processor on a board may transfer data to one or more RFID chips on a different board via conductive terminals between boards. Data stored in one or more RFID chips may be erased after being communicated to an RFID device via an RFID antenna or after a configurable timeout period elapses. A card and a mobile device may include more than one RFID antenna to increase efficiency, reliability, and/or a number of data channels that may be communicated. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MOBILE ELECTRONIC WALLET - Physical cards may be presented to a mobile device to establish a contactless communication channel between the physical card and the mobile device. Information communicated by the physical card may be received, stored, and used by the mobile device to generate a mobile wallet of virtual cards. Each virtual card in a mobile wallet may, for example, look just like its physical counterpart card and may provide equivalent functionality as its physical counterpart card when selected for use by the mobile device. Virtual cards may be sorted within the mobile wallet based on card category (e.g., payment, identification, or gift card category), card attributes (associations with other virtual cards), card variables (e.g., credit limit or credit available), and user attributes and variables (e.g., the user's current location). Information related to a virtual card (e.g., receipts) may be viewed from a display of the mobile device. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290472 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR MOBILE PAYMENT ACCEPTANCE - A mobile device may provide payment acceptance for purchases, payments and/or money transfers by accepting payment information from a powered, or a non-powered, card using a contactless communication channel formed between the card and the mobile device. The payment information may be communicated by the mobile device to network entities that may be used to settle such purchase, payment and/or money transfer transactions. The mobile device may, for example, accept more than one payment account to split a purchase among several payment accounts. A user of a mobile device may, for example, store payment information within the mobile device for future purchases. A user of a mobile device may, for example, request checkout options using the mobile device, such as customizing receipt delivery, annotating receipts with comments and categorizing purchases for customized accounting reports. | 11-15-2012 |
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20110014657 | Method for sequencing a polynucleotide template - The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. Using the methods of the invention it is possible to obtain two linked or paired reads of sequence information from each double-stranded template on a clustered array, rather than just a single sequencing read from one strand of the template. | 01-20-2011 |
20120208194 | Preparation of Templates for Nucleic Acid Sequencing - The invention relates to methods of generating templates for a nucleic acid sequencing reaction which comprise:
| 08-16-2012 |
20120309634 | METHOD FOR PAIRWISE SEQUENCING OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. Using the methods of the invention it is possible to obtain two linked or paired reads of sequence information from each double-stranded template on a clustered array, rather than just a single sequencing read from one strand of the template. | 12-06-2012 |
20130071879 | AMPLIFICATION METHODS TO MINIMISE SEQUENCE SPECIFIC BIAS - Methods for amplifying nucleic acids are provided. The methods can be used to minimise sequence specific bias caused by the preferential amplification of certain nucleic acid sequences. Methods are described which can lower the efficiency of AT rich templates relative to GC rich templates, thereby minimising GC bias during amplification reactions with multiple templates of different sequence. The methods are suited to solid phase amplification, for example, utilising flow cells. | 03-21-2013 |
20130178397 | USING POPULATIONS OF BEADS FOR THE FABRICATION OF ARRAYS ON SURFACES - The present invention provides a method of creating an array of features. The method can include steps of (a) providing a plurality of beads, wherein each bead in the plurality of beads includes probe content; (b) contacting the plurality of beads with a surface to produce a layer of beads on the surface; and (c) transferring the probe content from the beads to the surface to create an array of spatially discrete features on the surface, wherein each spatially discrete feature includes probe content from a bead in the plurality of beads. | 07-11-2013 |
20140066335 | Method of preparing libraries of template polynucleotides - The present invention relates to a method for preparing a library of template polynucleotides and use thereof in methods of solid-phase nucleic acid amplification. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for preparing a library of template polynucleotides that have common sequences at their 5′ ends and at their 3′ ends. | 03-06-2014 |
20140296109 | USING POPULATIONS OF BEADS FOR THE FABRICATION OF ARRAYS ON SURFACES - The present invention provides methods for creating an array of features on a surface based on content transferred from a plurality of beads to the surface. Nucleic acid content can be transferred using a method including the steps of (a) providing a surface having one or more primer oligonucleotides attached to the surface; (b) providing a pool of beads, wherein beads in the pool have a plurality of templates attached thereto, the plurality comprising multiple copies of a single nucleic acid template sequence; (c) arraying the beads onto the surface by hybridizing the templates to the primer oligonucleotides; and (d) extending the primers to produce copies of the templates attached to the surface. | 10-02-2014 |
20140329246 | AMPLIFICATION METHODS TO MINIMISE SEQUENCE SPECIFIC BIAS - Methods for amplifying nucleic acids are provided. The methods can be used to minimise sequence specific bias caused by the preferential amplification of certain nucleic acid sequences. Methods are described which can lower the efficiency of AT rich templates relative to GC rich templates, thereby minimising GC bias during amplification reactions with multiple templates of different sequence. The methods are suited to solid phase amplification, for example, utilising flow cells. | 11-06-2014 |
20140349891 | Preparation of Templates for Nucleic Acid Sequencing - The invention relates to methods of generating templates for a nucleic acid sequencing reaction which comprise:
| 11-27-2014 |
20150050657 | TARGETED ENRICHMENT AND AMPLIFICATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS ON A SUPPORT - Provided herein is a method of selecting target nucleic acids on a support. The method includes providing a plurality of beads each bead comprising one or more oligonucleotides, providing a support with a plurality of primers with a sequence complementary to at least a portion of the oligonucleotides on the beads, contacting the beads with the support wherein the oligonucleotides on the beads bind to the primers on the support, performing an extension reaction by extending the primers on the support to produce capture oligonucleotides, contacting the support comprising the capture oligonucleotides with the target nucleic acids, and extending the capture oligonucleotides bound to target nucleic acids to produce target extension products comprising a sequence complementary to at least a portion of the target nucleic acids. Optionally, the method further includes amplifying the target extension products. | 02-19-2015 |
20150148263 | METHODS FOR SELECTING AND AMPLIFYING POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides methods for controlling the density of different molecular species on the surface of a solid support. A first mixture of different molecular species is attached to a solid support under conditions to attach each species at a desired density, thereby producing a derivatized support having attached capture molecules. The derivatized support is treated with a second mixture of different molecular species, wherein different molecular species in the second mixture bind specifically to the different capture molecules attached to the solid support. One or more of the capture molecules can be reversibly modified such that the capture molecules have a different activity before and after the second mixture of molecular species are attached. In particular embodiments, the different molecular species are nucleic acids that are reversibly modified to have different activity in an amplification reaction. | 05-28-2015 |
20150197789 | END MODIFICATION TO PREVENT OVER-REPRESENTATION OF FRAGMENTS - The invention relates to a method of preparing a 5′ and 3′ modified library of template polynucleotides and also the use of the 5′ and 3′ modified library of templates in methods of solid-phase nucleic acid amplification. In particular, the invention relates to a method of preparing a 5′ and 3′ modified library of template polynucleotides which have common sequences at their 5′ ends and at their 3′ ends, wherein over-representation of “end” sequences of the primary polynucleotide molecules from whence the 5′ and 3′ modified library is generated is greatly reduced or prevented. | 07-16-2015 |
20150197799 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE MODIFICATION ON SOLID SUPPORT - The present disclosure relates to the field of molecular biology and more specifically to methods for capturing and amplifying target polynucleotides on a solid surface. | 07-16-2015 |
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20090118128 | Preparation of templates for nucleic acid sequencing - The invention relates to methods of generating templates for a nucleic acid sequencing reaction which comprise:
| 05-07-2009 |
20090176662 | End Modification to Prevent Over-Representation of Fragments - The invention relates to a method of preparing a 5′ and 3′ modified library of template polynucleotides and also the use of the 5′ and 3′ modified library of templates in methods of solid-phase nucleic acid amplification. In particular, the invention relates to a method of preparing a 5′ and 3′ modified library of template polynucleotides which have common sequences at their 5′ ends and at their 3′ ends, wherein over-representation of “end” sequences of the primary polynucleotide molecules from whence the 5′ and 3′ modified library is generated is greatly reduced or prevented. | 07-09-2009 |
20110009276 | Method for Sequencing a Polynucleotide Template - The invention provides methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. | 01-13-2011 |
20110223601 | Method for pairwise sequencing of target polynucleotides - The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. Using the methods of the invention it is possible to obtain two linked or paired reads of sequence information from each double-stranded template on a clustered array, rather than just a single sequencing read from one strand of the template. | 09-15-2011 |
20120094848 | Method for pairwise sequencing of target polynucleotides - The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. Using the methods of the invention it is possible to obtain two linked or paired reads of sequence information from each double-stranded template on a clustered array, rather than just a single sequencing read from one strand of the template. | 04-19-2012 |
20120122737 | METHODS FOR SELECTING AND AMPLIFYING POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides methods for controlling the density of different molecular species on the surface of a solid support. A first mixture of different molecular species is attached to a solid support under conditions to attach each species at a desired density, thereby producing a derivatized support having attached capture molecules. The derivatized support is treated with a second mixture of different molecular species, wherein different molecular species in the second mixture bind specifically to the different capture molecules attached to the solid support. One or more of the capture molecules can be reversibly modified such that the capture molecules have a different activity before and after the second mixture of molecular species are attached. In particular embodiments, the different molecular species are nucleic acids that are reversibly modified to have different activity in an amplification reaction. | 05-17-2012 |
20120172259 | USING POPULATIONS OF BEADS FOR THE FABRICATION OF ARRAYS ON SURFACES - The present invention provides a method of creating an array of features. The method can include steps of (a) providing a plurality of beads, wherein each bead in the plurality of beads includes probe content; (b) contacting the plurality of beads with a surface to produce a layer of beads on the surface; and (c) transferring the probe content from the beads to the surface to create an array of spatially discrete features on the surface, wherein each spatially discrete feature includes probe content from a bead in the plurality of beads. | 07-05-2012 |
20130244886 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCING NUCLEIC ACIDS - Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for sequencing nucleic acids. | 09-19-2013 |
20130274115 | METHOD FOR PAIRWISE SEQUENCING OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. Using the methods of the invention it is possible to obtain two linked or paired reads of sequence information from each double-stranded template on a clustered array, rather than just a single sequencing read from one strand of the template. | 10-17-2013 |
20130281306 | SEQUENCING METHODS - The present technology relates to molecular sciences, such as genomics. More particularly, the present technology relates to nucleic acid sequencing. | 10-24-2013 |
20140024537 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HAPLOTYPES AND PHASING OF HAPLOTYPES - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for determining and/or characterizing one or more haplotypes and/or phasing of haplotypes in a nucleic acid sample. In particular, the disclosure provides methods for determining a haplotype and/or phasing of haplotypes in a nucleic acid sample by incorporating synthetic polymorphisms into fragments of a nucleic acid sample and utilizing the synthetic polymorphisms in determining one or more haplotypes and/or phasing of haplotypes. | 01-23-2014 |
20140080721 | METHODS FOR REDUCING NUCLEIC ACID DAMAGE - Provided herein is a method of inhibiting degradation of nucleic acids during a nucleic acid processing step selected from fragmentation and detection comprising contacting the nucleic acids with a solution comprising gallic acid, analogues, derivatives thereof or mixtures thereof, during the processing step, wherein the contacting inhibits degradation of the nucleic acids. Also provided herein is a method of inhibiting light-induced degradation of nucleic acids. Additionally, provided herein is a method of reducing or inhibiting nucleic acid damage during preparation of a nucleic acid sample comprising fragmenting the nucleic acid sequences in the sample in a solution comprising one of more compounds, the compounds inhibiting degradation of the nucleic acid sequences in the sample. | 03-20-2014 |
20140287415 | Polymerases - Modified DNA polymerases have an affinity for DNA such that the polymerase has an ability to incorporate one or more nucleotides into a plurality of separate DNA templates in each reaction cycle. The polymerases are capable of forming an increased number of productive polymerase-DNA complexes in each reaction cycle. The modified polymerases may be used in a number of DNA sequencing applications, especially in the context of clustered arrays. | 09-25-2014 |
20140287935 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCING NUCLEIC ACIDS - Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for sequencing nucleic acids. | 09-25-2014 |
20140336057 | METHOD FOR PAIRWISE SEQUENCING OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template. Using the methods of the invention it is possible to obtain two linked or paired reads of sequence information from each double-stranded template on a clustered array, rather than just a single sequencing read from one strand of the template. | 11-13-2014 |