Patent Document ID: 7886309
Application ID: 11963805

Base Claim:
1. A system for accessing a platform independent input method editor (IME) from an underlying operating system, comprising: an operating system-based input for receiving keystrokes from a user; an operating system-based device driver for forming a character sequence from the received keystrokes, the character sequence being rendered as a desired character; an operating system-based IME service module for receiving the character sequence formed from said keystrokes, and for calling said platform independent IME to convert said character sequence to a corresponding code point, the code point being a value assigned to the desired character in an encoding format specification; and an operating system-based output for outputting said code point.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said operating system-based input comprises an active input control in an application running on said operating system.