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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2010
Kubilay Atasu, Zurich, CH;
Christoph Hagleitner, Zurich, CH;
Jonathan Bruno Rohrer, Zurich, CH;
Jan Van Lunteren, Zurich, CH;
Kubilay Atasu, Zurich, CH;
Christoph Hagleitner, Zurich, CH;
Jonathan Bruno Rohrer, Zurich, CH;
Jan Van Lunteren, Zurich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and a device for distributing patterns to scanning engines for scanning packets in a packet stream are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of scanning engines and patterns, calculating a respective distance metric for every pair of patterns, and providing a plurality of distribution functions. Further, the method includes calculating a respective sum of the calculated distance metrics for distributing the patterns for each of the distribution functions, and utilizing the sums for selecting a distribution function of the D distribution functions for distributing the patterns to the M scanning engines. A device for implementing the method is also provided.