US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 18 for "Method, electronic device, and computer program product for compressing data block" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,197, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, electronic device, and computer program product for compressing data block" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing), Lei Gao (Beijing) and Jun Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for compressing a data block involve adding a compression flag to a data block after the data block is decompressed by a protocol layer, the compression flag indicating that the data block is compressible or uncompressible. Such techniques further involve acquiring the compression flag of the data block. Such techniques further involve determining, in...