Appeal No. 2004-0963
Application No. 09/384,088
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of evaluating characters in an inputted search string to
generate a search index, comprising the steps of:
a) accepting an input of the characters of the search string, wherein
the characters can be represented in any of a plurality of character sets
corresponding to an undetermined language;
b) evaluating the search string by comparing each of the characters
of the search string to a plurality of pre-determined candidate character
sets to determine one or more matches between the plurality of pre-
determined candidate character sets and the search string; and
c) generating the search index by assigning character sets to a code
page, wherein the character sets are assigned based on the results of the
evaluation of the characters of the search string and the plurality of pre-
determined candidate character sets that correspond to the characters of
the search string.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Tateno 5,778,400 July 7, 1998
(filing date Feb. 22, 1996)
Halstead, Jr. et al.
(Halstead) 5,946,648 Aug. 31, 1999
(filing date July 24, 1998)
Houchin et al. (Houchin) 6,321,192 Nov. 20, 2001
(filing date Oct. 22, 1998)
Marshall WO 92/15067 Sept. 3, 1992
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