Patent ID: 9710517
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T,H03H,H03M

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: compressing, by a computer associated with a database, one or more data elements using a compression technique, the compression technique compressing the data elements such that each respective data element is individually decompressed when the data element is returned in response to a search query; storing, by the computer, the one or more data elements into a database record comprising one or more data fields, wherein each respective compressed data element is stored into a data field of the record configured to store a type of data element of the respective data element; associating, by the computer, a field notation in a reference table with each of the one or more data fields in each of one or more data records according to a schema associated with the database, wherein the field notation identifies a data type for each respective data field; responsive to the computer receiving a search query requesting a set of one or more data elements stored in one or more records of the database: