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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2012
Applicants:
Muriel Médard, Belmont, MA (US);
Soheil Feizi-khankandi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Muriel Médard, Belmont, MA (US);
Soheil Feizi-Khankandi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A functional compression scheme involves determining a minimal entropy coloring of a characteristic graph of a random variable. Various scenarios are disclosed where the determination of the minimal entropy coloring of a characteristic graph is easy and tractable.