Patents by Inventor Darin R. Marple

Darin R. Marple has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for determining a character encoding scheme
    Patent number: 6701320
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for determining an appropriate (e.g., best-fit) character encoding scheme including the steps of (i) generating a set of reference characters based on a reference character encoding scheme and a first set of bytes; (ii) generating a set of test characters based on a test character encoding scheme and said first set of bytes; (ii) generating a set of test bytes based on said test character encoding scheme and said set of test characters; (iv) generating a set of comparison characters based on said reference character encoding scheme and said set of test bytes; and (v) comparing said set of reference characters to said set of comparison characters. In one embodiment of the present invention, the aforementioned steps are implemented as a JAVA based software program with Unicode (e.g., USC2) as the reference character encoding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Darin R. Marple