ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,587, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dynamic content encoding" was invented by Christian T. Martelock (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Ali Sazegari (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output stream can be generated of compressed textual data. A first portion of the output stream includes an indicator that compression is used and a second portion is the compressed textual data. The textual data can be compressed by processing each byte of an input text bit-by-bit in order from most significant bit to least significant bit to generate an n-byte length context and a word context. While proce...