Patent ID: 8606351

Claim:
A method for compressing an electrocardiograph (ECG) data input acquired by an ECG system, comprising: receiving one or more ECG inputs via a data acqusition component of the ECG system; on a data processing component of the ECG system, processing the ECG inputs to generate a series of blocks; on the data processing component of the ECG system, applying a forward wavelet transform to the blocks to generate a set of wavelet coefficients; on the data processing component of the ECG system, applying a compression algorithm to the wavelet coefficients to generate a plurality of blocks of compressed data; on the data processing component of the ECG system, truncating compressed blocks of data that are too large to be written to an output buffer of the ECG system; and writing the plurality of blocks of compressed data to the output buffer of the ECG system for subsequent transmission by a transmission component of the ECG system.