Patent ID: 8063800
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06K,H03M

Abstract:
1. A method for encoding alphanumeric data onto a tangible computer readable medium comprising: (a) receiving an alphanumeric character string having a plurality of characters; (b) generating a character map having a string of character type symbols, wherein generating the character map includes: (c) generating a character map remainder, wherein the character map remainder is a variable-length bit pattern and generating the character map remainder includes: (d) for each identified run, generating a run field, wherein generating the run field includes encoding base data and run length data; (e) encoding the characters of each character type into binary encoded substrings, wherein encoding includes: (f) generating an encoded data string including one or more run fields, the character map remainder, and the binary encoded substrings; and (g) writing the encoded data string to the tangible computer readable medium.