Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to methods of communicating between an originating application running on an originating node and a destination application miming on a destination node, wherein application logic of the originating and destination applications is respectively in differing originating and destination languages. Further aspects relate to originating nodes, destination nodes and communication systems comprising such nodes, as well as data packets for such communication. In particular, one method comprises the originating node encoding a block of application logic of the originating application into one or more language interface tokens to be transmitted to the destination node, wherein the language interface tokens are configured to be decoded by the destination node for execution by the destination application.

Abstract: A inspection system for medical devices includes an inspection station, a workstation and a database. The inspection system collects images of the medical device. Analysis of the images reveals whether there is a defect in the medical device. If there is a defect, then a comparison analysis is performed between the defect and information in the database. The comparison analysis produces an indication of whether the medical device should be rejected in view of the defect or accepted in spite of the defect.

Abstract: A signal transmission system, for example a TDMA system, in which a carrier is divided into a plurality of traffic signal time slots, with optionally, some regularly interspersed control signal time slots. In order to be able to provide flexibility in the symbol rates and/or modulation schemes used by complementary users, the traffic signal time slots have one of at least two predetermined durations. However irrespective of the duration(s) of the traffic signal time slots, the number of symbols per traffic signal time slot remains substantially the same.