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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:
Jan. 25, 2005
Filed:
May. 28, 2003
Applicants:
William C. Lynch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Krasimir D. Kolarov, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven E. Saunders, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
William C. Lynch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Krasimir D. Kolarov, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven E. Saunders, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Droplet Technology, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 700 ; H03M 740 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A coder and/or decoder system and method are provided including a variable modulus. As an option, the modulus may reflect a steepness of a probability distribution curve associated with a compression algorithm (i.e. a negative exponential of the probability distribution). Moreover, the modulus may depend on a context of a previous set of data, while avoiding increasing as a function of a run length (i.e. a plurality of identical bits in a sequence).