A method and apparatus for digital data compression having an improved matching algorithm which utilizes a parallel hashing technique. The matching algorithm of the present invention data compression method can (a) perform a first hash computation on data string subblocks of N bytes and save the hash...http://www.google.de/patents/US5406278?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5406278 - Method and apparatus for data compression having an improved matching algorithm which utilizes a parallel hashing technique