US Patent 7468683 Encoding conversion fallback

Patent 7468683 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7468683

Date of Patent

December 23, 2008

Patent Application Number

10969279

Date Filed

October 19, 2004

Patent Primary Examiner

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Peguy JeanPierre

Patent abstract

A system and method for converting a source data sequence to a target encoding is disclosed. A fallback technique, specifiable by a user program component, is applied to data in the source data sequence that cannot be mapped to the target encoding. A particular embodiment involves methods for encoding a Unicode string as a sequence of bytes in a target encoding, and decoded the encoded bytes back to Unicode.