Patent ID: 8756149

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for enhancing the efficiency of digitally communicating a message from a first computer to a second computer of an interconnected computer system, wherein: each of said first and second computers is a device having means for sending and receiving data, and means for storing data in computer memory; and wherein said method comprises: (A) causing said computer system to apply a data compression technique to an unencoded version of a message communicated, or to be communicated, between said first and second computers, thereby establishing a coding scheme database that is available to both said first computer and second computer; wherein: (1) said data compression technique is customized so that said coding scheme allocates shorter codes to order-units having a higher p-value in said unencoded version of said message and longer codes to order-units having a lower p-value present in said unencoded version of said message; and (2) said p-value is a metric of the moving average of the frequency of said order-unit, weighted by its assigned importance, relative to other order-units in said message(s), such that an order-unit having a higher importance-weighted frequency is assigned a higher p-value than an order-unit having a lesser importance-weighted frequency; (B) causing said first computer to encode said message to be communicated using said coding scheme database to thereby produce an encoded version of such message; and (C) digitally communicating said encoded version of said such message from said first computer to said second computer, directly or via one or more intermediate computers, wherein the message length of said encoded version of such message is shorter than the message length of the unencoded version of such message, and wherein said second computer, upon receiving said encoded version of such message, employs said coding scheme database to decode said encoded version of such message.