Apparatus and accompanying methods for use therein for implementing an integrated, virtual office user environment, through an office server, through which a remotely stationed user can access typical office network-based applications, including e-mail, file sharing and hosted thin-client programs, through a remotely located network, e. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a top face, an under face, and side faces; an optical function unit formed on the top face; a plurality of electrode pads formed on the under face; and a wiring formed on at least the side face and electrically connecting the optical function unit and at least one of the plurality of electrode pads. A constraint on concavity is placed upon the resultant 2-D band-pass filtered image to create a mask. The encoder may itself generate metadata associated with the first compressed bitstream, which may be used together with any metadata received by the encoder, to transcode the first compressed bitstream into a second compressed bitstream. The QI evaluation template is used by the one or more QA reviewers for entry of one or more Observation Information for a QI under evaluation and associating each OI with respective evidence information and recommendation information.