Patent attributes
The presented connection processes a stream data by a computer. The data is split into blocks called packets and the task is to search for a match of the data in packets with specified patterns—regular expressions, useful in the field of telecommunication technology and services. The connection may be formed within a semiconductor circuit, which serves for receiving, processing, and sending packets. This semiconductor circuit may be implemented by an FPGA-type circuit. In this way, instead of one circuit implementing the automaton with a total data width Sc, a set of simultaneously operating circuits is implemented forming several identical automata at a smaller data width Sn. This eliminates the exponential rise in the number of symbols in the automaton and at the same time it allows achieving a high throughput of the entire connection.
