Patents by Inventor John K. Peacock

John K. Peacock has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for efficient and compact encoding
    Patent number: 6919826
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide for efficient and compact encoding. In an exemplary method for associating a codeward with a symbol in a file, the frequency of occurrence of the symbols in the file is determined. Next, a threshold is determined. Explicit codewords are assigned to symbols with greater then the threshold. The remaining symbols are ordered in sequence and implicit codewords are assigned to all of remaining symbols. Finally, an encoding table associating the codeword for each symbol is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: John K. Peacock