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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2005
Srimantee Karmakar, Mississauga, CA;
Bryan R. Goring, Milton, CA;
Michael Shenfield, Richmond Hill, CA;
Kamen B. Vitanov, Mississauga, CA;
Jeffery C. Rogers, Scarborough, CA;
Srimantee Karmakar, Mississauga, CA;
Bryan R. Goring, Milton, CA;
Michael Shenfield, Richmond Hill, CA;
Kamen B. Vitanov, Mississauga, CA;
Jeffery C. Rogers, Scarborough, CA;
Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method for encoding a message communicated between devices, the message having at least one field, the method comprising: if the field is not optional and contains a value, writing the value to one or more data bytes in a byte buffer; and, if the field is optional and contains a default value, marking a bit in a reserved byte in the byte buffer to indicate that the field contains a default value.