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Originally Posted by Gudy
Also, Harry, it may be Huffman, but their claims lead me to believe that they made changes to the compression algorithm so they can start decompressing anywhere they need so they can start presenting page 500 in a book without having to decode all previous pages. Those changes may very well be patented.
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Correct. They've stated that they couldn't simply use something like the Zip "Deflate" algorithm because they wanted to be able to start decompressing at any specified point in the file (like the dictionary definition for a particular word), and Zip always started at the beginning.
I think it would be a smart move for them to make the Creator and Reader programs open source efforts, but that proprietary compression algorithm might be an issue in doing so. It seems like something they wouldn't want to release.
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Dennis