| 摘要 |
<p>A compression and a decompression algorithm resides in a memory of a data processing system. The data processing system communicates to another data processing system via an input/output means and a telecommunications network. When a message, to be communicated to the other data processing system, is ready for transmission, the data processing system compresses the message data. A processor or the data processing system compresses the data using the compression algorithm stored in the memory of the data processing system. The compression algorithm: identifies a mask character in the data representing the most frequently occurring character in the data, develops a mask byte in association with the mask character, the mask byte identifying the locations of the mask character in the data and identifying the locations of each portion of a residual message associated with the data, and develops the residual message, the residual message representing the message data with the mask character extracted from the message data. EN984046</p> |
