Claims
- 1. A method of compressing a received document, comprising:
receiving a documents containing unknown combinations of a plural data types; determining a required compression amount for the document, compressing portions of the document with a compression method selected to meet a local compression constraint; comparing actual compression with said local compression constraint iteratively compressing portions of the document with progressively more aggressive compression techniques to meet said local compression constraint.
- 2. The method described in claim 1, and including
comparing actual compression of the document with a global compression constraints; iteratively compressing said document with progressively more aggressive compression techniques to meet said global compression constraint.
- 3. A compression system comprising a document input, receiving documents containing unknown combinations of a plural data types
plural document compression systems, providing lossy compression and lossless compression a compression comparison arrangement, comparing compressed document information with compression constraints to determine whether an amount of compression applied to a document meets compression constraint requirements; a feedback arrangement, controlling selection of said plural document compression devices to increase compression applied to documents to meet compression restraint requirements an iterative compression processor, iteratively processing documents, responsive to said feedback arrangement.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application is based on a provisional application No. 60/203,816, filed May 12, 2000.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60203816 |
May 2000 |
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