Patent ID: 7692560

Claim:
A method for compressing and de-compressing data, the method comprising: a data source sending the data to a data packetization and compression sub-system, the data packetization and compression sub-system compressing the data using a particular type of data compression, the data packetization and compression sub-system forming the data into a plurality of packets, the data packetization and compression sub-system attaching a header to each of the plurality of packets, the header indicating the particular type of data compression used by the data packetization and compression sub-system in compressing the data, the data packetization and compression sub-system transmitting the plurality of packets to a data decompression and de-packetization sub-system through a clear channel communication link, the data decompression and de-packetization sub-system interrogating the header of each of the plurality of packets to determine how the data in said packet had been compressed, the data decompression and de-packetization sub-system de-compressing data in each of the plurality of packets in accordance with the particular type of data compression identified in the header of the packet, the data decompression and de-packetization sub-system dividing the de-compressed data into octets, and the data decompression and de-packetization sub-system passing the de-compressed data to a data destination.