Patent ID: 9083977
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method facilitating random access to segments of compressed data stored in memory, said method comprising: receiving a series of data segments; encoding said series of data segments into a series of compressed data segments, each of said compressed data segments having a variable segment size; storing said series of compressed data segments in a compressed data memory; determining the size of each of said compressed data segments; and generating a locator for each of said compressed data segments; and wherein said locator identifies a memory location of said compressed data memory storing at least part of an associated compressed data segment; said locator includes a memory address and an offset, said memory address identifying said memory location from a plurality of memory locations of said compressed data memory, and said offset being indicative of the position of a first bit of said associated compressed data segment within said memory location; and said step of generating said locator of said associated compressed data segment includes