System and method for compressing data on a bandwidth-limited network
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1. A method for compressing a message comprising:
- identifying a block of data within said message which is found in a previous message;
generating a pointer identifying said block of data in said previous message; and
replacing said block of data in said message with said pointer.
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Abstract
A method for compressing a message is disclosed, comprising: identifying a block of data within the message which is found in a previous message; generating a pointer identifying the block of data in said previous message; and replacing the block of data with the pointer in the message.
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1. A method for compressing a message comprising:
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identifying a block of data within said message which is found in a previous message;
generating a pointer identifying said block of data in said previous message; and
replacing said block of data in said message with said pointer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for compressing messages comprising:
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message identification logic for identifying a previous message which contains a block of data found in a new message;
state-based compression logic for compressing said message by replacing said block of data with a pointer identifying said block of data in said previous message. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method comprising:
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providing an interface to a message service, said interface compressing messages and forwarding said compressed messages to a data processing device, wherein said interface compresses a message by searching for prior messages transmitted to or received from said data processing device which contain a block of data found in said message and replacing said block of data with a pointer to said block of data in said prior messages. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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