Enhanced compression formats for data compression

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• means for determining one or more blocks of data in a current packet matching one or more blocks of data in one or more portions of one or more previous packets stored in a memory;
• means for compressing at least a portion of the current packet based on an enhanced compression format having reduced metadata relative to another compression format to indicate one or more of the one or more blocks of data in the current packet, wherein compressing the at least a portion of the current packet based on the enhanced compression format comprises including, in the current packet, a pointer to a memory location of a stored compression header of a previous packet and wherein the stored compression header of the previous packet includes a pointer to a memory location of the matching one or more blocks of data;
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• means for transmitting the current packet including the compressed portion and the pointer to the memory location of the stored compression header.

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• at least one processor coupled with a memory and configured to:
• determine one or more blocks of data in a current packet matching one or more blocks of data in one or more portions of one or more previous packets stored in a memory;
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• compress at least a portion of the current packet based on an enhanced compression format having reduced metadata relative to another compression format to indicate one or more of the one or more blocks of data in the current packet, wherein compressing the at least a portion of the current packet based on the enhanced compression format comprises including, in the current packet, a pointer to a memory location of a stored compression header of a previous packet, and wherein the stored compression header of the previous packet includes a pointer to a memory location of the matching one or more blocks of data;
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• a transmitter configured to transmit the current packet including the compressed portion and the pointer to the memory location of the stored compression header.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable code stored thereon, comprising:

• code for determining one or more blocks of data in a current packet matching one or more blocks of data in one or more portions of one or more previous packets stored in a memory;
• code for compressing at least a portion of the current packet based on an enhanced compression format having reduced metadata relative to another compression format to indicate one or more of the one or more blocks of data in the current packet, wherein compressing the at least a portion of the current packet based on the enhanced compression format comprises including, in the current packet, a pointer to a memory location of a stored compression header of a previous packet and wherein the stored compression header of the previous packet includes a pointer to a memory location of the matching one or more blocks of data;
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• code for transmitting the current packet including the compressed portion and the pointer to the memory location of the stored compression header.