Abstract: A data compression system and a method for compressing an alphanumeric message is disclosed in which a predetermined dictionary has entries represented by corresponding phrase codes, a phrase encoder encodes strings of at least one symbol in the alphanumeric message with phrase codes representing dictionary entries corresponding to the strings, and a statistical model encoder encodes at least a portion of the remaining symbols in the message using a statistical model based coding method.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 6, 1998
Date of Patent:
August 8, 2000
Assignee:
National Dispatch Center, Inc.
Inventors:
John B. MacLeod, Julius E. Okopi, Robert J. Millar