Data compression engine

A system for compressing connection state information comprising:

• at least one processor for controlling
• receiving an input bitmap comprising a sequence of bits describing transmit states and receive states for packets in a connection between a first node on a network and a second node on the network, each bit in the sequence of bits being either set or unset;
• partitioning the input bitmap into a plurality of equal size blocks;
• partitioning each of the blocks into a plurality of equal sized sectors;
• generating a block valid sequence indicating the blocks having at least one bit set;
• generating, for a block of the plurality of equal size blocks having at least one bit set, a sector information sequence, the sector information sequence indicating, for the block of the plurality of equal size blocks, the sectors that have at least one bit set and an encoding type for each sector;
• and
• generating one or more symbols by encoding each sector that has at least one bit set, according to the encoding type for the sector, such that each encoded sector corresponds to one of the symbols,
• wherein the input bitmap is a concatenation of bitmaps, and
• wherein the bitmaps include a transmitter request window bitmap, a transmitter data window bitmap, a receiver request window bitmap, a receiver data received window bitmap, and a receiver data received and acknowledged window bitmap.