The present invention relates to a method for compressing a continuous data flow based on lossy compression. In real-time data compression, a series of data subsets acquired in a given period of time are treated as a regional data cube for the purpose of dividing a continuous series of data subsets into...http://www.google.com/patents/US6798360?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6798360 - Method and system for compressing a continuous data flow in real-time using recursive hierarchical self-organizing cluster vector quantization (HSOCVQ)