International Characters (IC)'s patented technology exploits the frequently untapped parallel data processing (SIMD) capabilities in commodity microprocessors. As described in IC's 2008 US Patent 7400271 Method and Apparatus for Processing Character Streams, the software converts streams of serial character data into parallel streams of bits that are directed into the SIMD registers found already within the CPU.

IC’s open-source software and technology is available for deployment by end-users and distribution by software developers on standard open-source terms through our patent covenant. The transparency of functionality of open-source software (there are no "black boxes") can be very important to verify that the software meets all customer needs, particularly when it comes to low level routines. IC works with partners on commercial licensing opportunities for combining this software with hardware or proprietary software.

With IC’s technology

• text format conversion can be dramatically accelerated,
• pattern searching can be performed much more rapidly,
• traditionally serial aspects of extract, transform and load operations be parallelized,
• specialized hardware for accelerating XML processing can be eliminated.