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Textual substitution data compression with finite length search windows

US4906991A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 29, 1988
Grant dateMar 6, 1990
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Expiry dateApr 29, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M7/3086
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In accordance with the present invention source data is encoded by literal codewords of varying length value, with or without the encoding of copy codewords of varying length and displacement value. Copy codeword encoding is central to textual substitution-style data compression, but the encoding of variable length literals may be employed for other types of data compression.

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