An inputoutput system interconnects a mobile terminal, a cooperative processing apparatus, and a plurality of electronic devices, and is configured to implement a cooperative process of prompting an electronic device corresponding to an input apparatus to input electronic data and prompting an electronic device corresponding to an output apparatus to output the input electronic data. The QoS agent couples to an all-IP network. When the down instruction signal becomes inactive from the active state, a count control circuit sets a count unit of the counting circuit to the minimum value. In either case, the resulting subdivision surfaces generalize uniform tensor product B-spline surfaces of any degree to meshes of arbitrary topology. The time difference information is indicative of a difference in the Z-components of the locations of charge generations in the corresponding neighboring sensor volumes caused by a particle trajectory that is inclined with respect to the X-Y-plane. According to various aspects the method includes using an interrogator to radiate a field of radio-frequency energy to a correlated set containing at least a first object-transponder pair, energizing an ASIC portion of a transponder using energy received by said at least one transponder, and initializing the ASIC, and broadcasting an identity signal therefrom.