Patent Document ID: 8380488
Application ID: 11737603

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a sequence of bytes representing text in a document; identifying a plurality of byte-n-grams occurring in the sequence of bytes, each byte-n-gram comprising n adjacent bytes from the sequence of bytes, where n is an integer greater than 1; identifying, for multiple encodings, a respective likelihood of each byte-n-gram occurring in each of the respective multiple encodings; receiving multiple likelihoods associated with a top-level-domain of the document, each of the multiple likelihoods indicating a likelihood that documents from the top level domain are in a respective one of the multiple encodings; determining a respective encoding score for each of the multiple encodings, each respective encoding score being based on the likelihood of the plurality of byte-n-grams occurring in the corresponding one of the multiple encodings and based on the likelihoods associated with the top-level-domain the corresponding one of the multiple encodings; and identifying a most likely encoding of the document based on a highest encoding score among the encoding scores.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: identifying a language based on the most likely encoding of the document.