Software and hardware managed dual rule bank cache for use in a pattern matching accelerator

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8966182
APP PUB NO 20120203970A1
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13023058

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A pattern matching accelerator (PMA) for assisting software threads to find the presence and location of strings in an input data stream that match a given pattern. The patterns are defined using regular expressions that are compiled into a data structure comprised of rules subsequently processed by the PMA. The patterns to be searched in the input stream are defined by the user as a set of regular expressions. The patterns to be searched are grouped in pattern context sets. The sets of regular expressions which define the pattern context sets are compiled to generate a rules structure used by the PMA hardware. The rules are compiled before search run time and stored in main memory, in rule cache memory within the PMA or a combination thereof. For each input character, the PMA executes the search and returns the search results.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Biran, Giora Zichron-Yaakov, IL 107 2684
Hagleitner, Christoph Zurich, CH 48 571
Heil, Timothy H Rochester, US 27 744
Hoover, Russell D Rochester, US 51 1937
Van, Lunteren Jan Gattikon, CH 63 950

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