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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2014
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
James Mistry, London, GB;
British Telecommunications PLC, London, GB;
Abstract
A method for generating a pattern matching machine for identifying matches of a symbol pattern in a sequence of in put symbols, the received symbol pattern including an indicator that one or more symbols in the symbol pattern repeat as repeated symbols, the method comprising: generating a plurality of symbol patterns for the received symbol pattern, each generated symbol pattern being equivalent to the symbol pattern for a different number of repetitions of the repeated symbols, wherein the plurality of generated symbol patterns comprise all possible symbol patterns equivalent to the received symbol pattern up to a predetermined maximum length of a generated symbol pattern.