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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2002
John Border, Poolesville, MD (US);
Matthew Butehorn, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Robert Jeff Heath, San Diego, CA (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for encoding data transmitted over a communications channel, including pre-loading an encoder dictionary with a set of character strings expected to appear in input data to be encoded; and encoding the input data with the set of expected character strings pre-loaded in the encoder dictionary. In another aspect, there is provided a method, apparatus and computer program product for decoding encoded data received over a communications channel, including pre-loading a decoder dictionary with a set of character strings expected to appear in the encoded data; and decoding the encoded data with the set of expected character strings pre-loaded in the decoder dictionary.