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`CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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`This application is a continuation of United States Patent Application No.
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`14/033,245, filed on September 20, 2013, which is a continuation of United States Patent
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`Application No. 13/154,239, filed on June 6, 2011, now U.S. Patent No. 8,553,759, which
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`is a continuation of United States Patent Application No. 12/123,081, filed on May 19,
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`2008, now U.S. Patent No. 8,073,047, which is a continuation of United States Patent
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`Application No. 10/076,013, filed on February 13, 2002, now U.S. Patent No. 7,386,046,
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`which claims the benefit of United States Provisional Application No. 60/268,394, filed
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`on February 13, 2001, each of which is fully incorporated herein by reference.
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`BACKGROUND
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`1.
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`Technical Field
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`[00021
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`The present invention relates generally to data compression and decompression
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`and, in particular, to a system and method for compressing and decompressing data based
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`on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system that employs data
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`compression. Additionally the present invention relates to the subsequent storage,
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`retrieval, and management of information in data storage devices utilizing either
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`compression and/or accelerated data storage and retrieval bandwidth.
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`2.
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`Description of the Related Art
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`[0003]
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`There are a variety of data compression algorithms that are currently available,
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`both well-defined and novel. Many compression algorithms define one or more
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`parameters that can be varied, either dynamically or a-priori, to change the performance
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`characteristics of the algorithm.
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`For example, with a typical dictionary based
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`compression algorithm such as Lempel-Ziv, the size of the dictionary can affect the
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`performance of the algorithm. Indeed, a large dictionary may be employed to yield very
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`good compression ratios but the algorithm may take a long time to execute. If speed were
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`more important than compression ratio, then the algorithm can be limited by selecting a
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`smaller dictionary, thereby obtaining a much faster compression time, but at the possible
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`cost of a lower compression ratio. The desired performance of a compression algorithm
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`and the system in which the data compression is employed, will vary depending on the
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`application.
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`[0004}
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`Thus, one challenge in employing data compression for a given application or
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`system is selecting one or more optimal compression algorithms from the variety of
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`available algorithms.
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`Indeed, the desired balance between speed and efficiency is
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`typically a significant factor that is considered in determining which algorithm to employ
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`for a given set of data. Algorithms that compress particularly well usually take longer to
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`execute whereas algorithms that execute quickly usually do not compress particularly
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`well.
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`[0005]
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`Accordingly, a system and method that would provide dynamic modification of
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`compression system parameters so as to provide an optimal balance between execution
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`speed of the algorithm ( compression rate) and the resulting compression ratio, is highly
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`desirable.
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`[0006]
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`Yet another problem within the current art is data storage and retrieval bandwidth
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`limitations. Modern computers utilize a hierarchy of memory devices.
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`In order to
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`achieve maximum performance levels, modern processors utilize onboard memory and on
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`board cache to obtain high bandwidth access to both program and data. Limitations in
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`process technologies currently prohibit placing a sufficient quantity of onboard memory
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`for most applications. Thus, in order to offer sufficient memory for the operating
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`system(s), application programs, and user data, computers often use various forms of
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`popular off-processor high speed memory including static random access memory
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`(SRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), synchronous burst
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`static ram (SBSRAM). Due to the prohibitive cost of the high-speed random access
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`memory, coupled with their power volatility, a third lower level of the hierarchy exists for
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`non-volatile mass storage devices. While mass storage devices offer increased capacity
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`and fairly economical data storage, their data storage and retrieval bandwidth is often
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`much less in relation to the other elements of a computing system.
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`[0007}
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`Computers systems represent information in a variety of manners. Discrete
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`information such as text and numbers are easily represented in digital data. This type of
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`data representation is known as symbolic digital data. Symbolic digital data is thus an
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`absolute representation of data such as a letter, figure, character, mark, machine code, or
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`drawing.
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`[0008]
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`Continuous information such as speech, music, audio, images and video,
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`frequently exists in the natural world as analog information. As is well known to those
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`skilled in the art, recent advances in very large scale integration (VLSI) digital computer
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`technology have enabled both discrete and analog information to be represented with
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`digital data. Continuous information represented as digital data is often referred to as
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`diffuse data. Diffuse digital data is thus a representation of data that is of low information
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`density and is typically not easily recognizable to humans in its native form.
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`[0009]
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`Modem computers utilize digital data representation because of its inherent
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`advantages. For example, digital data is more readily processed, stored, and transmitted
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`due to its inherently high noise immunity. In addition, the inclusion of redundancy in
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`digital data representation enables error detection and/or correction. Error detection
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`and/or correction capabilities are dependent upon the amount and type of data
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`redundancy, available error detection and correction processing, and extent of data
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`corruption.
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`[O(H O]
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`One outcome of digital data representation is the continuing need for increased
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`capacity in data processing, storage, and transmittal. This is especially true for diffuse
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`data where increases in fidelity and resolution create exponentially greater quantities of
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`data. Data compression is widely used to reduce the amount of data required to process,
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`transmit, or store a given quantity of information. In general, there are two types of data
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`compression techniques that may be utilized either separately or jointly to encode/decode
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`data: lossless and lossy data compression.
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`[0011 J
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`Over the last decade, computer processor performance has improved by at least a
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`factor of 50. During this same period, magnetic disk storage has only improved by a
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`factor of 5. Thus one additional problem with the existing art is that memory storage
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`devices severely limit the performance of consumer, entertainment, office, workstation,
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`servers, and mainframe computers for all disk and memory intensive operations.
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`[0012]
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`For example, magnetic disk mass storage devices currently employed in a variety
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`of home, business, and scientific computing applications suffer from significant seek-time
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`access delays along with profound read/write data rate limitations. Currently the fastest
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`available (15,000) rpm disk drives support only a 40.0 Megabyte per second data rate
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`(MB/sec). This is in stark contrast to the modern Personal Computer's Peripheral
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`Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus's input/output capability of 512 MB/sec and internal
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`local bus capability of 1600 MB/sec.
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`[0013]
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`Another problem within the current art is that emergent high performance disk
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`interface standards such as the Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI-3), iSCSI, Fibre
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`Channel, AT Attachment UltraDMA/100+, Serial Storage Architecture, and Universal
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`Serial Bus offer only higher data transfer rates through intermediate data buffering in
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`random access memory. These interconnect strategies do not address the fundamental
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`problem that all modern magnetic disk storage devices for the personal computer
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`marketplace are still limited by the same typical physical media restriction. In practice,
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`faster disk access data rates are only achieved by the high cost solution of simultaneously
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`accessing multiple disk drives with a technique known within the art as data striping and
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`redundant array of independent disks (RAID).
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`[0014]
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`RAID systems often afford the user the benefit of increased data bandwidth for
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`data storage and retrieval. By simultaneously accessing two or more disk drives, data
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`bandwidth may be increased at a maximum rate that is linear and directly proportional to
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`the number of disks employed. Thus another prob