Patent ID: 11923876
Assignee: MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  A | IPC A  H

Claim 8:
9. A method for choosing the branch values for a k-ary tree, comprising:
obtaining a statistically significant sample of an input stream to be encoded;
encoding the input stream using a first set of k-ary branch values;
encoding the input stream using a second set of k-ary branch values;
determining that an amount of energy used to encode the input stream using the first set of k-ary values is lower than an amount of energy used to encode the input stream using the second set of k-ary values;
selecting the first set of k-ary branch values based at least in part on the determination that the amount of energy used to encode the input stream using the first set of k-ary values is lower than the amount of energy used to encode the input stream using the second set of k-ary values; and
constructing a k-ary tree based on the first set of k-ary branch values for use in an encoder of a physiological monitoring system.