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Abstract

Through the use of remote actor (5) messaging, the system (10) described herein concurrently scans high volumes of digital information (1) to look for potential content matches using a variety of scan techniques and a variety of types of scanner (6) (e.g., fingerprint scanners, pattern scanners, dictionary scanners, etc.). The scanners (6) are organized into a plurality of scanner worker modules (5). Some or all of the scanner worker modules (5) can reside and operate together on the same device (computer) (4), or they can all be distributed across many horizontally scalable computers (4). This architecture (10) allows distributing the incoming digital content (1) to some or all of the scanners (6) at once, and have them all look for matches in parallel, i.e., simultaneously. It also allows a user to add new types of content scanning (6) and/or to modify scan parameters (23, 34) dynamically, without introducing unwanted latency into the system (10).

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