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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bulent Abali, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Bartholomew Blaner, Shelburne, VT (US);
Paul G. Crumley, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for performing in-place compression is provided. The in-place compression system transfers source data from a partition of a memory to a data buffer based on a read address. Compressed data is created by referencing the source data stored in the data buffer. The system writes the compressed data to the memory partition based on a write address. When the write address points at an address location that stores source data that has not been transferred to the data buffer, the system overwrites the compressed data stored in the memory partition with the source data stored in the data buffer.