Patent ID: 8457976

Claim:
A system comprising: a first logic stored in a computer-readable medium and executable by a processor that partitions and stores a frequency spectrum of bins of real and imaginary data into a smaller number of sub-bands; a second logic stored in the computer-readable medium and executable by the processor that executes a lossy compression that compresses a designated magnitude of one bin in each sub-band that is representative of that sub-band and a designated phase of one bin in each sub-band that is representative of that sub-band, such that magnitude data and phase data of the frequency spectrum is not maintained by the lossy compression; and a third logic stored in the computer-readable medium and executable by the processor that renders a lossless compression by decompressing lossy compressed data rendered by the second logic and providing magnitude data and phase data not maintained by the lossy compression based on original spectral relationships contained within the frequency spectrum stored in the computer-readable medium.