ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,652, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Data compression using sort-based encoder" was invented by Vinay Soni (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for data compression using a sort-based encoder are provided herein. An example method includes generating, for a sequence of data, a tree data structure comprising nodes including a set of leaf nodes. Each of at least a subset of the leaf nodes represents a corresponding data symbol and includes index values of instances of the corresponding data symbol in the sequence of data. The meth...