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System and method for compressing data in a PDA

US6782318B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 11, 2002
Grant dateAug 24, 2004
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M7/42
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, devices and methods are provided to compress data, and in particular to code and decode data in a PDA. One aspect of the present subject matter is a data structure. The data structure includes a field representing a decoding structure to decode canonical Huffman encoded data, and a field representing a symbol table. The decoding structure includes a field representing an accelerator table to provide a 2N-deep direct-index lookup to provide high-frequency symbols for high-frequency data and to provide bracketing indices for low-frequency data. The decoding structure also includes a field for a binary search table to provide a low-frequency symbol index using a binary search bounded by the bracketing indices provided by the accelerator table. The symbol table is adapted to provide a symbol associated with the low-frequency index.

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