ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,375, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic compression context in a wireless data network based on applying generic network context and device-specific context to a rule template" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Huimin She (Shanghai) and Li Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises: outputting, by a gateway device in a wireless data network comprising wireless network devices, a rule template for execution by any of the wireless network devices, the rule template comprising a device information variable for insertion ...