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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
David John Craft, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
708203 ;
Abstract
A method for compressing data within a data processing system is disclosed. Each unit of data is at least two bytes. As each byte from a data stream is received, a determination is made as to whether or not an identical data byte occurs at a pre-selected interval within a group of bytes already received. In response to a determination that an identical data byte occurs at a pre-selected interval within a group of bytes already received, only a portion of a subsequent unit of data from the data stream is passed to an output.