Patent ID: 8804766

Claim:
A method of sending compressed data, the method comprising: (i) receiving sequential uncompressed data; (ii) providing a plurality of M compressing devices CD.sub.x, each compressing device CD.sub.x configured to apply a lossless compression algorithm and generate a corresponding compressed block B.sub.x; (iii) providing N compressing devices CD.sub.i for i=1 to N, where N.Itoreq..rarw.M, from the plurality of M compressing devices; (iv) for i=1 to N: continually applying the received sequential uncompressed data to a compressing device CD.sub.i until the corresponding compressed block B.sub.i has a corresponding transmission time duration BlockDuration.sub.i that is greater than or equal to a predetermined duration threshold value; and forwarding the obtained block B.sub.i along a communication link; and (v) repeating step (iv), wherein a sum of characteristic transmission times BlockDuration.sub.i for i=1 to N, is greater than a predetermined Response Time (RT), and wherein the Response Time (RT) is an amount of time taken to receive a message in response to the forwarding of a block B.sub.i along the communication link.