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| 8190584 | Utilizing recursive application of a reversible transform which involves lexicographic ordering An electronic device provides electronic access to a dataset representing meaningful information. The electronic device generates a first subset permutation based on a first subset of the dataset, and generates a second subset permutation based on a second subset of... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8159373 | Encoding and decoding information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for encoding and decoding information. In one aspect, methods of encoding information in an encoder include the actions of receiving a signal representing information ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156432 | Detection of UTF-16 encoding in streaming XML data without a byte-order mark and related printers, systems, methods, and computer program products Provided are printers and other electronic devices, systems, methods, and computer program products that automatically detect and determine UTF-16 encoding schemes and endiannesss thereof in an incoming XML data steam for XML declarations without a UTF-16 byte-order... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149143 | Data encryption and decryption with a key by an N-state inverter modified switching function Methods and apparatus for implementing an n-state ripple-adder scheme coder with n≧2 using an n-state reversible switching function and a non-reversible n-state switching function acting upon a first and a second word of at least 2 n-state symbols are disclosed. C... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144037 | Blocking for combinatorial coding/decoding for electrical computers and digital data processing systems Embodiments described herein may include example embodiments of a method, article and apparatus for compressing data utilizing combinatorial coding which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a bus... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138954 | Method and system for efficient data transmission with server side de-duplication The invention provides a method and system for reducing redundant data blocks. The method includes reducing redundant data blocks by decoding a first data block from a first plurality of data blocks and a bitstream. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8111176 | Method for encoding vectors The present invention relates to a method for encoding a vector for transmission from a transmitter to a receiver, comprising a step of selecting a first vector in a predefined M-dimensional vector codebook, and at least one refinement step wherein an error vector b... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8077059 | Database adapter for relational datasets The invention is a database adapter providing improved methods for storing and retrieving relational data. Suitable source data is structured as a table with a fixed number of columns of predetermined types and a variable number of rows. The invention reduces the sp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077061 | System for text acquisition, transformation and/or database load One embodiment of the present invention is a text acquisition system that includes: (a) a character stream application module; (b) a parallel property bit stream module; (c) an analysis module; (c) a character stream generator; and (d) a database. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077060 | Distributed threshold adjustment for high speed receivers According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a terminal configured to receive an analog input signal. In various embodiments, the apparatus may also include a multistage amplifier configured to amplify the analog input signal by an amount of gain. In so... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059016 | Data compression apparatus and method A data compression apparatus and method for improving data compression efficiency are provided. The data compression apparatus includes a searcher for calculating costs, by searching domain blocks arranged in forward direction in a search range, between a range bloc... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044828 | Method and system for encoding communications between wireless and other devices A method for encoding a message communicated between devices, the message having at least one field, the method comprising: if the field is not optional and contains a value, writing the value to one or more data bytes in a byte buffer; and, if the field is optional... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040262 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding metadata Provided are a meta data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The meta data decoding method includes decoding a media signal containing a media object, and decoding meta data corresponding to the media object. During the decoding of the meta data signal, decoding... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035535 | Apparatus and method providing transformation for human touch force measurements An apparatus includes a force sensor configured to be activated by a user and a control unit connected to an output of the force sensor. The control unit is configurable to operate in response to receipt of an m-bit value representing a measurement from the force se... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026836 | Transmission of pathological data patterns A method and apparatus is presented for reducing or eliminating pathological data patterns from signals for transmission over optical communications systems. One embodiment includes a decoder/deserializer configured to receive an encoded serial digital signal, a dit... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018356 | Method of encoding/decoding data, method of detecting data, and method of recording/reproducing data According to an embodiment of the present invention, a data encoding method includes separating an input sequence into a plurality of n-bit blocks, wherein n is a natural number, and converting each of the n-bit blocks into a block code including M rows and N column... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009065 | System and method for encoding and decoding serial signals formed by a plurality of color lights The present invention is to provide a method for encoding and decoding serial signals formed by a plurality of color lights, which is applied to an encoding/decoding system comprising an encoding device and a decoding device, and comprises steps of generating a driv... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004429 | Data compression/decompression apparatus and method A data compression/decompression apparatus and method are provided for improving memory utilization. The data compression/decompression apparatus includes a compressor for calculating costs of domain blocks to a range block through forward searching in a search rang... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999705 | Unicode-compatible base-N range coding A character data set is compressed with a compression algorithm module of a computer system to generate one or more streams of encoded values. The compression module is configured to compress the character data set with an base-n range encoder to generate one or mor... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999704 | Low complexity compression of short messages A method for data communication, where the data compression and decompression is performed by use of a specific hash table, by which data compression a symbol for each data segment is generated, which symbols are transmitted to the receiver where the symbols are dec... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7994945 | Encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially in vector quantization with permutation codes The invention relates to the encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially using permutation codes involving a calculation of combinatorial expressions. According to the invention, the combinatorial expressions are represented by prime factor power decompositions... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7994944 | Encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially in vector quantization with permutation codes The invention relates to the encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially using transposition codes involving a calculation of combinatorial expressions. According to the invention, the combinatorial expressions are represented by prime factor power decompositio... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990289 | Combinatorial coding/decoding for electrical computers and digital data processing systems Embodiments described herein may include example embodiments of a method, article and apparatus for compressing data utilizing combinatorial coding which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a bus... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990290 | Efficient rateless distributed compression of non-binary sources A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for rateless compression of non-binary sources. In one embodiment, the method comprises representing a sequence of non-binary source symbols as a sequence of sets of binary values; selecting a code for comp... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986250 | Nonlinearity robust successive requantizer A successive requantizer, which serves as a replacement for a ΔΣ modulator in a fractional-N PLL or a DAC, and avoids spurious tone problems, thereby circumventing the tradeoffs that result from reliance on the common approach of making highly linear analog circui... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7973679 | Encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially in vector quantization with permutation codes The invention relates to the encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially using permutation codes involving a calculation of combinatorial expressions. According to the invention, the combinatorial expressions are represented by prime factor power decompositions... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969332 | Method and apparatus for encoding based on a linear block code A method and apparatus for encoding based on a linear block code, and a method and apparatus for generating a linear block code are provided. The method for encoding based on a linear block code includes: generating a linear block code; and encoding an information s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965205 | Data identification method and apparatus Disclosed herein is a data identification method for identifying, from within a readout signal from a recording medium on or in which user data of k bits are recorded using a recording modulation code wherein m bits from among n bits which compose one codeword have ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961119 | Memory efficient indexing for disk-based compression A network optimization device may receive a stream of data and generate a signature for a plurality of fixed length overlapping windows of the stream of data. The device may select a predetermined number of the generated signatures for each Ln-byte segmen... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944374 | Pseudo-orthogonal code generator A pseudo-orthogonal code generator is provided. The pseudo-orthogonal code generator simplifies overall configuration and provides a more efficient operating speed by implementing a pseudo-orthogonal code generator using combined circuits instead of using a read onl... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940197 | Network re-encoding method and device for re-encoding encoded symbols to be transmitted to communication equipments A network re-encoding device is intended for re-encoding encoded symbols to be transmitted to at least one communication equipment connected to a network. This network re-encoding device comprises a re-encoding means arranged for re-encoding output nodes, defined by... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7932842 | Method of encoding data A data encoder-decoder which generates an encoded data element which can be stored in and retrieved from a reduced space memory element. ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924176 | N-state ripple adder scheme coding with corresponding N-state ripple adder scheme decoding Methods and apparatus for implementing an n-state ripple-adder scheme coder with n≧2 using an n-state reversible switching function and a non-reversible n-state switching function acting upon a first and a second word of at least 2 n-state symbols are disclosed. C... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920076 | Run length limiter and run length limiting method According to one embodiment, a run length limiter includes a searcher configured to search a received digital data for a specific symbol, an operator configured to operate an exclusive OR operation of the specific symbol and the digital data, and an output module co... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907068 | FIFO radix coder for electrical computers and digital data processing systems A method for decoding includes receiving a message at a decoding device, where the message includes a code corresponding to a sequence of data symbols. Based on the code, a first data symbol of the sequence of data symbols is determined. The first data symbol is det... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7898441 | Method and apparatus for character stream transcoding One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus that transcodes an n code unit block of UTF-8 input data in the form of eight parallel n-bit segments of u8-indexed bit streams u8bit0 through u8bit7 into UTF-16 output data i... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7884741 | For externally clocked digital audio input, determining a valid clock and muting audio during synchronization Methods and apparatus for determining the existence of an external clock over a digital input port on a computer. In one embodiment, the external clock is validated, and a lock is performed when the clock is valid. Whenever a loss of the lock is detected, and, if a ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7864077 | System and method for encoding a signal using compressed sensor measurements Described is a system and method for receiving a signal for transmission and encoding the signal into a plurality of linear projections representing the signal. The encoding includes defining a transform matrix. The transform matrix being defined by processing the s... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852237 | Content-based segmentation scheme for data compression in storage and transmission including hierarchical segment representation In a coding system, input data within a system is encoded. The input data might include sequences of symbols that repeat in the input data or occur in other input data encoded in the system. The encoding includes determining a target segment size, determining a wind... | 12/14/2010 |
| RE41983 | Method of organizing and compressing spatial data A method for organizing and compressing spatial data to enable fast, incremental downloads of spatial data over a network. The method comprises multiple steps for segmenting and reducing spatial data, and introduces a location-relevant naming system for storing and ... | 12/07/2010 |
