Patent ID: 8776191

Claim:
A machine-implemented method, comprising: acquiring a set of data strings each transformed into a numeric Integer format and the set of data strings acquired from a requesting application as a pointer reference to a directory having the set of data strings; obtaining a unique co-prime number for use with each data string, maintaining a starting co-prime number and dynamically generating each of the co-prime numbers beginning with the starting co-prime number, and wherein the co-prime numbers are pairwise co-prime with one another; calculating a single storage value to represent the entire set of the data strings by processing a Chinese Remainder Theorem algorithm (CRT) against each of the data strings and their corresponding co-prime numbers to obtain the single storage value; and returning to a requesting application the single storage value as an Integer That when combined with the co-prime numbers can independently reproduce each of the data strings in the numeric Integer format.