US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on July 29 for "Methods and apparatus for compressing data streams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,585, issued on July 29, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus for compressing data streams" was invented by Kalpendu Ratanshi Pasad (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hong Jik Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for enhancing network data processing using compressing data streams are disclosed. The process, in one aspect, is configured to receive a data stream through a receiver via a communication network. Upon identifying compressed data and an encoder identifier carried by the data stream, a decoder database is determined in the receiver. After retrieving a decoder fr...