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Apparatus, system, and method for sorting character representations of data

  • US 20050278330A1
  • Filed: 06/04/2004
  • Published: 12/15/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus to sort character representations of data, the apparatus comprising:

  • an identity module configured to identify character-encoded sort data values in a plurality of data lines of a data set, the sort data values comprising a character representation of data encoded according to a predefined character set;

    a conversion module configured to convert the sort data values from the character representation to a predefined encoding scheme; and

    a sort module configured to sort the data lines using the converted sort data.

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