Minimum limit of fair market value of ISO grants to employee shareholder.

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- Definition

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Expected Life

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- Definition

Shares available for future issuance under stock option plan.

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- Definition

Share based compensation arrangement by share based payment award plan modification incremental shares outstanding.

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- Definition

Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Percentage of Options Vested At the End of Each Quarter

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- Definition

Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Percentage of Options Vested At the End of One Year

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- Definition

Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Description of award terms as to how many shares or portion of an award are no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, thereby giving the employee the legal right to convert the award to shares, to sell the shares, and be entitled to the cash proceeds of such sale. For example, vesting may be expressed as being 25 percent of the shares under option on each anniversary of the grant date.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 718

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (a)(1)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)

-Number 123R

-Paragraph A240

-Subparagraph a

-LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy.

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- Definition

Number of additional shares authorized for issuance under an established share-based compensation plan.

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- Definition

Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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- Definition

Purchase price of common stock expressed as a percentage of its fair market value.

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Stock Option Plans (Details)	3 Months Ended		1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
Stock Option Plans (Details)	Sep. 30, 2012	Sep. 30, 2011	Jan. 31, 2011 2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]	Sep. 30, 2012 2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]	Sep. 30, 2012 Maximum [Member] 2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]	Sep. 30, 2012 Minimum [Member] 2006 Equity Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Increased additional shares authorized for future issuance			2,000,000
Increase in number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2006 Plan				3.00%
Minimum percentage of shares owned by employee for ISO				10.00%
Percentage of fair market value					110.00%	100.00%
Stock options granted term				10 years
Stock options / restricted stock awards, vesting period				4 years
Stock options vesting rights				25% at the end of one year and one sixteenth per quarter thereafter
Percentage of options vested at the end of one year				25.00%
Percentage of options vested at the end of each quarter				6.25%
Stock options granted, number of shares	561,780	452,900
Authorized shares available for future issuance under all equity incentive plans	1,672,924