Sybase (SAP) Assigned Patent
Character data compression for reducing storage requirements in database system
By Francis Pelletier | September 22, 2015 at 2:43 pmSybase, Inc., Dublin, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,129,001) developed by Qian, Xu-dong, and Xiong, ZhiPing, Shanghai, China, for a “character data compression for reducing storage requirements in a database system.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system, method, and computer program product for character data compression for reducing data storage requirements in a database system are described. Embodiments include identifying data of a particular character type in a full data page, and identifying usage frequency of each character of the particular character type. Each character is encoded based on the identified usage frequency and stored, with storage requirements for most frequently used characters are reduced.“
The patent application was filed on May 7, 2012 (13/465,482).
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