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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Patrick J. Clas, Binghamton, NY (US);
Pu Liu, Vestal, NY (US);
William F. Phillips, Owego, NY (US);
Paul E. Rogers, Johnson City, NY (US);
Stephen M. Sweeney, Apalachin, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30153 (2013.01); G06F 17/30292 (2013.01); G06F 17/30424 (2013.01); G06F 17/30911 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for compressing that comprises establishing attributes or elements to build a schema that is utilized to generate a record that includes the connection descriptions, building a set of substitution rules by using range expressions and substitution variables, and utilizing the set of substitution rules to associate value assignments that compress the connection descriptions within the record.