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Segment Information (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Segment Information [Abstract] |
revenues by geographic Area [Table Text Block] | Revenues, by geographic location (based on the customer’s ordering location) for the years ended October 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was as follows:
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
United States |  | $ | 26,929 |  |  | $ | 66,531 |  |  | $ | 28,764 |
South Korea |  | 92,163 |  |  | 53,256 |  |  | 40,148 |
England |  | 1,061 |  |  | 1,639 |  |  | — |
Indonesia |  | 147 |  |  | 675 |  |  | — |
Germany |  | 128 |  |  | 290 |  |  | 681 |
Canada |  | 175 |  |  | 156 |  |  | 136 |
Japan |  | — |  |  | 23 |  |  | 48 |
Total |  | $ | 120,603 |  |  | $ | 122,570 |  |  | $ | 69,777 |

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