In a move that is bound to increase their compression leadership, the new patent granted to Smith Micro will allow them to compress JPEG images up to 30% without sacrificing image quality. Smith Micro was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,502,514 “System and Method for Lossless Compression of Already Compressed Files” by the U.S Patent and Trademark Office.

The new ’514 patent extends to a system and method for losslessly compressing already compressed files including, but not limited to, archive files like ZIP, and media formats such as MP3 and JPEGs.

The Smith Micro patented JPEG image compression technology enables our line of StuffIt desktop and wireless products to reduce the size of JPEG files up to 30 percent – with no loss of image quality. The newly granted compression technology patent is one of several that make StuffIt a valuable compression tool for a wide variety of customers.

This new StuffIt patent represents another technology breakthrough that continues to establish Smith Micro’s leadership in the field of file compression innovations for PC and mobile devices. As utilized in StuffIt Wireless, Smith Micro’s cutting edge media compression technologies provide an important solution for Wireless operators looking to mitigate the ever-increasing load on their 3G data networks.

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