Patent ID: 7584089

Claim:
A system for preserving digitally encoding character information in remote document folders completed via web browsing session between servers and browsers having different character sets via a processor running under instructions stored in a memory comprising: a character set defining legal characteristics usable in connection with folder naming; an input for receiving a digital sequence representative of a plurality associated characters associated with a filename of an electronic document folder corresponding to electronic document data associated with a web server; means for determining whether the digital sequence utilizes a seven bit sequence to represent an associated character of the filename; means for outputting an output signal representative if the digital sequence is other than seven bits in length; means for outputting a multi-byte character representation of each associated character in accordance with an output signal; means for encapsulating each multi-byte character representation in a web-compatible file format in accordance with a generated output signal, which encapsulated multi-byte character representation is encapsulated in accordance with a character outside of the character set means for associating a string of encapsulated multi-byte character representations with a file storage area associated with the electronic document folder; means for accessing electronic documents associated with the file storage area in accordance with the string of multi-byte characters; means adapted for sensing a web-browser based request for access to the file storage area of the electronic document folder; and means adapted for selectively generating the filename on the web browser in accordance with the string of encapsulated multi-byte characters in accordance with an output of the sensing means.