Patent ID: 8391148

Claim:
A method of compressing data at an Ethernet node, the method comprising: obtaining, by the Ethernet node, an original Ethernet frame, the original Ethernet frame having an original Ethernet header, an original payload portion, and an original Frame Check Sequence (FCS); compressing, by the Ethernet node, the original payload portion to form a compressed payload portion, compressing the original payload portion comprising encoding the original payload portion of the original Ethernet frame with a selected compression algorithm to reduce the original Ethernet frame size, the compressing being implemented by the Ethernet node to compress the original payload portion of the original Ethernet frame separately from any data transmitted in any other Ethernet frame using a compression dictionary; and creating, by the Ethernet node, a new Ethernet frame including a new Ethernet header, the compressed payload portion, a new FCS, and the compression dictionary, the compression dictionary being created for and transmitted with the new Ethernet frame and being only used for the original Ethernet frame and for no other Ethernet frame.