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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/12/01
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In article <3844A51A.1B629776@research.canon.com.au>,
  Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au> wrote:
> What patent? (searching for in/williams gets > 7000 hits!)
> I guess a patent number is a bit much to expect,
> but can you provide some keywords to search for,
> or say which aspects of David's package may infringe?

This is the patent on using a canonical form to deal with
communication between little-endian and big-endian machines.

> Also, don't patents now expire 20 years from the filing date
> rather than 17 years from the grant date?


This was granted quite some time ago, very likely it has
expired by now.


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