Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for continuous compression of large volumes of data

US8205009B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 1, 2003
Grant dateJun 19, 2012
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Expiry dateApr 30, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/1095
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for efficiently transmitting data from a first site to a remote site over a communication medium. The data includes a storage for storing data in sub-segment boundaries, such that few sub-segments are accommodated in each block. The system further includes a storage for storing data including signature data. Each one of the sub-segments is associated with a signature of considerably smaller size than its respective sub-segment. The system includes a processor configured to perform the following, as many times as required: receiving a block and partitioning it into sub-segments. For each sub-segment in the block the processor calculating a signature. It then determines whether the calculated signature matches a corresponding signature, if any, stored in the signature storage, and in case of no match (indicating that the sub-segment is new or has been modified), transmitting the sub-segment to the remote site and store the calculated signature in the signature storage.

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