Abstract: A syringe having luminescent features to enhance readability. Said syringe having a central body portion that is a barrel having a proximal and distal end along a central longitudinal axis that acts as a reservoir for fluid inside the syringe. A plunger and coupled seal member can be engaged with the proximal end of the barrel creating a liquid tight reservoir inside the syringe. A plunger having a metal hook seated with a battery contacts a side of the battery. The metal hook is connected to a wire. A different wire contacts the opposite side of the battery. Both wires run along the longitudinal axis of the plunger to a light emitting diode. A tab is located between the battery and the metal hook in order to prohibit contact until ready to use. Illumination of barrel increases readability of demarcations on the barrel.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention a framework is presented for the generation and execution of code performing conversion to and from an arbitrary native or “wire” data format. The code facilitates a business application using a service provided by a service implementation in accordance with a native language of the implementation which may be different from the language of the business application. The main components of the framework include a model of the information necessary for the formatting of data which may be represented through the extensions to WSDL; a tool time support environment providing structured support for the generation of format handlers; and runtime support for the generated format handlers. In an alternative to this static invocation model, a dynamic usage scenario provides for invocation of format handlers dynamically obtained from a format handler factory.

Abstract: In a digital channel bank, the binary signaling states (on-hook, off-hook) are updated periodically for each channel. Some number (n .gtoreq. 2) of the most recent of these samples are stored at the receive end of the digital system for each message channel. Under normal working conditions the output (to the switching machine) is directly influenced by the incoming real-time samples. However, when a carrier disturbance (i.e., out-of-frame condition) is detected, the updating process is stopped and the output is controlled by the older stored bits. That is, instead of sending the real-time signaling information of each channel to the switch, the signaling bits that were received and stored during a previous frame (e.g., 12 or more frames earlier) are now coupled to the switch. This assures a high probability that the proper signaling state is presented to the switch during short carrier disturbances.