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Systems and methods of directory entry encodings

  • US 7,739,288 B2
  • Filed: 09/17/2009
  • Issued: 06/15/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for filename lookup which supports multiple character encodings, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a computer system, one or more requests to store one or more names into a data structure, each name represented by a byte value based on one of a plurality of character encodings;

    converting, by the computer system, each of the names of the one or more requests into a key;

    for each name of the one or more requests, storing, by the computer system, a data element indexed by the name'"'"'s key into the data structure, the data element comprising the name'"'"'s byte value, an identifier of the name'"'"'s character encoding, and address data for locating file data associated with the name;

    receiving, at the computer system, a request to retrieve a data element associated with a requested name comprising a request byte value according to a request character encoding;

    converting, by the computer system, the requested name into a request key; and

    searching, by the computer system, the data structure for a data element related to the requested name using at least the request key.

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