Forward and reverse Boyer-Moore string searching of multilingual text having a defined collation order
Patent 5440482 Issued on August 8, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date: 
March 25, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
March 25, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesMethod of facilitating computer sorting Multilingual database system including sorting data using a master universal sort order for all languages Method for quasi-key search within a National Language Support (NLS) data processing system Apparatus and method for sorting a list of items Patent #: 5218700 InventorApplicationNo. 036749 filed on 03/25/1993US Classes:707/6Pattern matching accessExaminersPrimary: Black, Thomas G.Assistant: Lintz, Paul R. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 017/30AbstractA method and system for providing a language-sensitive text compare. An innovative system and method for performing the compare is presented that performs text comparison of any Unicode strings. For any language an ordering is defined based on features of the language. Then, an interactive compare function is performed to determine the relationship of a pair of strings. The string is examined and a compare is performed one character at a time based on a predefined character precedence.Other References
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