摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved technique for transmitting information to an application that may possibly be subject to a constraint on a transmittal time, a processing time and/or a memory. SOLUTION: This invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for encoding (and subsequently decoding) a sequence of periodic byte values that have a vertical correlation (e.g. so that they can be more efficiently stored and/or electronically transmitted for use in a real-time system or resource-constrained system). Redundant values are omitted through use of marker bytes and bits masks which indicate when a set of values is unchanged and which of the set have changed, respectively. In this manner, the resources required for transmitting, processing, and/or storing the values is reduced.
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