Programmable rule processing apparatus for conducting high speed contextual searches and characterizations of patterns in data

摘要

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for a rule processor for conducting contextual searches, the processor comprising a plurality of input payload search registers, search execution engine coupled to the plurality of search registers to perform one or more contextual searches on content in the search registers by via parallel pattern matching in response to executing rules specifying the one or more searches, and presenting one or more patterns to the content in the search registers.