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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Edward Henry Daray, Saratoga, CA (US);
William B. Nettles, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel A. Rose, Markham, CA;
Baldev S. Soor, Markham, CA;
Edward Henry Daray, Saratoga, CA (US);
William B. Nettles, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel A. Rose, Markham, CA;
Baldev S. Soor, Markham, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to culturally sensitive sorting of records. The invention provides a method and a computer system for sorting a set of keyed records based on a preferred locale specification having collation information of a culture. The method is performed on a computer system operatively coupled to a computer readable memory storing the set of keyed records. The steps include reading a locale token associated with the set of records, the locale token identifying a preferred locale object having collation information, using the preferred locale object to locate and read the collation information, creating a culturally correct collation key for each data key associated with the each record, and using the created culturally correct collation keys to sort the set of records into a culturally correct sorted order.