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Wow, do you have a link to the patent? It'd be surprising to me if there wasn't prior art. Might be worth asking http://patents.stackexchange.com/ http://patent
by makmanalp 12y ago
Wow, do you have a link to the patent? It'd be surprising to me if there wasn't prior art. Might be worth asking http://patents.stackexchange.com/ http://patents.stackexchange.com/ !
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoCame across it 7 years ago when new at my current project. Did research into efficient compression schemes. Had to change our scheme to avoid the patent. It was Hughes I think.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoOk I searched patents using 'compression dictionary' and came up with a boatload. Folks have been using dictionaries since 2005 at least, to replace common words e.g. XML tags with tokens. E.g. patent 20050027731: Daniel Revel