Patent ID: 7760954
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: H03M,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of compressing data with a compression device, the method comprising: receiving a data stream with a compression device; identifying data phrases within the data stream with the compression device, wherein each of the data phrases comprises a set of sequential data symbols received within the data stream; storing the data phrases identified by the compression device in a phrase dictionary of the compression device; and outputting a compressed data stream with the compression device to a decompression device, wherein outputting the compressed data stream comprises sending the data phrases from the compression device to the decompression device in un-modified form for the first two times that the data phrases occur in the data stream, and replacing repeated data phrases with data phrase identifiers for data phrases previously output in the compressed data stream after sending the data phrases in un-modified form for the first two times that the data phrases occur in the data stream to synchronize a phrase dictionary of the decompression device with the phrase dictionary of the compression device.