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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2011
Michael Sliger, Sammamish, WA (US);
Voicu Anton Albu, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir K. Stoyanov, Redmond, WA (US);
Nadim Y. Abdo, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Sliger, Sammamish, WA (US);
Voicu Anton Albu, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir K. Stoyanov, Redmond, WA (US);
Nadim Y. Abdo, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An invention is disclosed for compressing data. In embodiments of the invention, input data is processed to determine one or more hints, or meta-data about how to compress the data. These hints may be produced based on the contents of the data itself, or by the process which generated the data. A hint may comprise an indication that a portion of the data matches another portion of the data, an indication that the portion of the data should not be compressed by an associated compressor, or an indication that the portion of the data should be compressed normally by the associated compressor. The source data and these hints may then be sent to a compressor, which traverses both the source data and the hints, and encodes the source data accordingly to produce an encoded data output stream.