Understanding information as well as its redundancy, or duplication, has been crucial in the development of many of our everyday items such mobile phones, the internet, the compact disc as well as ...

Some processes covered in patents granted last week by the US Patent and Trademark Office: Microsoft reranking results based upon redundancy of information, Ask reranking pages based upon affinities ...

All compression algorithms utilize two basic functions. The first removes redundant or irrelevant information. Redundancy removal can be lossless or lossy. The second function, bit packing, packs the ...