ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,662, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Data compression method and apparatus" was invented by Chao Yu (Shenzhen, China), Yi Chen (Shenzhen, China), Guifu Li (Shenzhen, China), Ge Qiu (Shanghai), Zhipeng Li (Shenzhen, China), Daiyue Zhang (Shanghai) and Jing Qian (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a data compression method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining m data blocks in a data area of a readable and writable file system; compressing the m data blocks by using a preset compression algorithm, to sequentially obtain n compressed data blocks, w...