Global printing system and method of using same
AssigneeZIH Corp.
InventorsJohn Fay, Jessica Wettstein, Cabel Sholdt, Fred Susi
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Abstract
A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encoding schemes. The method also includes determining a parser state of the data based on a plurality of characters and/or at least one printer control command associated with the plurality of encoding schemes.
Claims34
A method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer comprising:
- receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in an ASCII transparent encoding scheme and a non-ASCII transparent encoding scheme;
- maintaining a buffer of the received data, the received data comprising a plurality of characters and at least one printer control command associated with each of the ASCII transparent encoding scheme and the non-ASCII transparent encoding scheme;
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- parsing the data based on at least one of the plurality of characters and at least one printer control command associated with each of the ASCII transparent encoding scheme and the non-ASCII transparent encoding scheme.
A method for formatting bar codes that are encoding scheme independent comprising:
- receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in at least one encoding scheme;
- determining whether the data comprises a Unicode encoding scheme;
- converting the data into at least a first predetermined encoding scheme;
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- formatting at least one bar code using the at least first predetermined encoding scheme.
A method for analyzing serialized data comprising:
- receiving serialized data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the serialized data is encoded in at least one encoding scheme;
- converting the data into a first encoding scheme;
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- parsing the converted data into an array of combining semantic clusters based on a plurality of rules, each combining semantic cluster comprising a plurality of code points.
A printer for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes comprising:
- a receiving component configured to receive data from at least one host computer that is encoded in an ASCII transparent encoding scheme and a non-ASCII transparent encoding scheme;
- a buffer component configured to store the received data, the received data comprising a plurality of characters and at least one printer control command associated with each of the ASCII transparent encoding scheme and the non-ASCII transparent encoding scheme;
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- a parser component configured to determine a parser state of the data based on at least one of the plurality of characters and at least one printer control command associated with each of the ASCII transparent encoding scheme and the non-ASCII transparent encoding scheme.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.