From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, IP_LINK_PLUS,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a883dc07df0d6bb1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ka@socrates.hr.lucent.com.no_spam (Kenneth Almquist) Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <824634$4v0@nntpa.cb.lucent.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555508353 References: <877lj2q36g.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <81u247$kc3$1@hobbes2.crc.com> <821rc5$bim$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <822o4d$ehh$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <8233fm$ngf$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net> <1999Dec1.100413.1@eisner> Organization: Lucent Technologies, Columbus, Ohio Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) wrote: > That abstract could also be used to describe ASN.1 BER encoding. > > Does the detailed description indicate what part is novel ? The detailed description can be obtained from the USPTO web site [1]. The patent covers binary data stored on secondary storage devices on systems running a portable operating system such as UNIX. According to the patent, the prior art consists of writing conversion programs for every pair of CPU architectures, which must be run when data is moved from one system to another when the systems have different CPU architectures. The allegedly novel idea is to write the data in a cannonical format, making it unnecessary to run conversion programs when moving files or file systems. Kenneth Almquist [1] The URL is