Patent ID: 6898605

Claim:
A hand-held electronic device for use in accessing and displaying data that is stored in compressed form, wherein when uncompressed, the data includes a series of words, and wherein each of the words is sized according to a multiple of a common unit of memory storage, the hand-held electronic device comprising: a display for displaying information; a processor; a memory; tokenized data stored in the memory, wherein the tokenized data comprises word and phrase tokens, wherein each of the word tokens represents a unique word in the data, wherein each of the word tokens is sized according to the common unit of memory storage regardless of the size of the unique word, wherein each of the phrase tokens represent a unique sequence of the word tokens in the tokenized data, wherein the phrase tokens are associated to the unique sequence in response to locating at least one repeated unique sequence of word tokens in the tokenized data and wherein each of the phrase tokens is sized according to a given multiple of the common unit of memory storage; a word dictionary table-stored in the memory, wherein the one word dictionary comprises the word tokens and their corresponding unique words; and a phrase dictionary stored in the memory, wherein the phrase dictionary table comprises the phrase tokens and their corresponding word tokens; wherein a data access routine stored in the memory and executable by the processor is operable to receive an input, and responsive to the input, display a portion of the data by decompressing the tokenized data using the word and phrase dictionaries.