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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2011
David Law, East Lothian, GB;
Peter Furlong, Castleknock, IE;
Eugene O'neill, Castleknock, IE;
Kevin Loughran, Castleblayney, IE;
David Law, East Lothian, GB;
Peter Furlong, Castleknock, IE;
Eugene O'Neill, Castleknock, IE;
Kevin Loughran, Castleblayney, IE;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus including logic to receive a data packet comprising a string of characters, said apparatus having a plurality of states and at least one state for every character position in the string of characters; logic to examine the string of characters for matches with a plurality of predefined values, beginning with an initial character; and logic to execute forward exit transitions from any of the plurality of states based upon the examination of the characters, wherein a current state of the apparatus represents a count of a number of characters from the initial character of the string of characters.