Patent Document ID: 7907784
Application ID: 11774704
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of selectively compressing a stream of input data elements from signal and data processing electronics to produce a selectively lossy to a very high level of lossless output data stream for transmission over a data network, the method comprising the steps of: (a) selecting at the signal and data processing electronics, at least one mathematical model, from a set of predetermined mathematical models, each mathematical model parameterizing a space with a set of model specific coordinates, the coordinates represented by a tuple of at least one coordinate value, and outputting for each selected mathematical model, a set of parameters comprising a map, from a tuple of coordinate values in the model space to an approximating set of data values for at least one subportion of the input data elements, (b) compressing the stream of input elements by determining, at the signal and data processing electronics, for at least one subportion of the input data elements, a mathematical model label indicating a selected mathematical model, and the values of a tuple of model coordinates which map to a tuple of data values which, according to a measure of merit, best approximate the subportion of the input data elements, and (c) outputting, over the data network, at least the mathematical model label and parameters as at least a portion of an output data stream, wherein the mathematical model parameters comprises a lossy compressed portion of the stream of input data elements.