Efficient representation and transmission of objects with variants

摘要

According to the present invention a method and a device for storing data objects is provided. The data objects are stored in a node of a transmission chain, wherein an original data object from an information source (4) and at least one variant derived (8, 9) thereof by predetermined transformation steps are stored (5, 6, 7) in the same node or in different nodes (1, 3, 4) of the transmission chain. According to the invention the original object and the variants derived thereof are allocated to the same family and the original data object and the derived variants are provided with an identification code identifying the family the original data object and the variant belongs to.