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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024

Filed:

May. 10, 2022
Applicant:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Subramani Ganesh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sidong Li, Saratoga, CA (US);

Lei Chang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0263 (2013.01); G06F 16/2237 (2019.01); G06F 16/2282 (2019.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for reduction and acceleration of a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for reduction and acceleration of a DFA includes receiving an input value; performing a reduced deterministic finite automaton lookup using a lookup key, wherein the lookup key comprises a current state and the input value; and determining a next state based on the lookup key.


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