Patent ID: 6850941

Claim:
A method for encoding user-submitted native-byte form data in a client-server computer network, comprising: at a client computer, said user selecting a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) for access to a content provider web server, using a web browser; transmitting, from said client computer, client computer specific information to said content provider web server via HTTP protocol; determining, at said content provider web server, said client computer's locale using an automatic locale detection algorithm and forwarding said client computer's locale to a back-end server; generating, at said back-end server, a locale-specific form having a pre-populated, uniquely-named field, using a dynamic page generation program; serving said locale-specific form to said web browser via HTTP protocol; displaying, on said web browser, said locale-specific form for said user; entering, on said locale-specific form by said user, a set of user form data, at said client computer; transmitting said set of user form data, including said pre-populated, uniquely-named field, to said web server via the HTTP protocol; processing, at said web server, said set of user form data based on the value of said pre-populated, uniquely-named field; creating an encoding object based on the value of said pre-populated, uniquely-named field; transcoding said set of user form data with said encoding object to a, content provider scripting environment encoding; and forwarding said transcoded set of user form data to a content provider'scripting environment.