ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,393, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Data compression method and apparatus" was invented by Bang Liu (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Kai Zhu (Chengdu, China), Ke Li (Chengdu, China), Wen Yang (Chengdu, China) and Jianqiang Shen (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data compression method includes providing one or more data block sets, where each data block set includes a plurality of data blocks with a same fingerprint; providing one or more compression groups based on a similarity degree between a plurality of data blocks included in each data block set, where one compres...