Path encoding and decoding

A system of decoding an input string of binary characters representing an encoded string of alphanumeric characters, comprising:

• a register for storing a cellular data structure definition, the cellular data structure definition including a starting current cell;
• a register for storing a data structure definition, the data structure definition for defining one or more paths through the data structure;
• a serialization de-serialization engine for populating the cells with the binary characters using a defined transform so that each populated cell is full;
• character reading and writing engine for reading a binary character from the current cell, writing it to an output string, and setting the current cell to empty;
• a next cell determination engine for determining a next full cell by methodically traversing from the current cell to adjacent cells along the one or more paths in the data structure until a full cell is located;
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• a loop facilitator for looping back to the reading next character step and the determining next cell step until there are no more cells in the data structure or a next full cell is not determined and whereby the output string can be presented as a decoded string of alphanumeric characters.

A method of encoding an input string of binary characters, comprising:

• defining a cellular data structure including a starting empty cell;
• defining one or more paths through the data structure;
• writing a binary character to an empty cell with a predefined initial position;
• determining a next empty cell by methodically checking cells along one of the paths in the data structure until an empty cell is located;
• looping back to the writing next character step and the determining next cell step until there are no more data characters or a next empty cell is not determined;
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• methodically serializing the data structure into a one dimensional binary string of characters representing an encoded string of alphanumeric characters.

A method of decoding an input string of binary characters representing an encoded string of alphanumeric characters comprising:

• defining a cellular data structure including a starting current cell;
• defining one or more paths through the data structure;
• populating the cells with the binary characters using a defined transform so that each populated cell is full;
• reading a binary character from the current cell;
• writing it to an output string, and setting the current cell to empty;
• determining a next full cell by methodically traversing from the current cell to adjacent cells along the one or more paths in the data structure until a full cell is located;
• looping back to the reading next character step and the determining next cell step until there are no more cells in the data structure or a next full cell is not determined;
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• presenting the output string as a decoded string of alphanumeric characters.

A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code configured to perform a method for encoding an input string of binary characters representing alphanumeric characters when executed by a computer system, the method comprising:

• defining a cellular data structure including a starting empty cell;
• defining one or more paths through the data structure;
• writing a binary character to an empty cell with a predefined initial position;
• determining a next empty cell by methodically checking cells along one of the paths in the data structure until an empty cell is located;
• looping back to the writing next character step and the determining next cell step until there are no more data characters or a next empty cell is not determined;
• and
• methodically serializing the data structure into a one dimensional binary string of characters representing an encoded string of alphanumeric characters.