US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, National Taiwan University on Sept. 22 for "Regular expression rule grouping balancer" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,815, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Regular expression rule grouping balancer" was invented by Eun Kyung Lee (Bedford Corners, N.Y.), Lars Schneidenbach (Bedford Hills, N.Y.), Tsung-Nan Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hong-Yen Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Pang-Cheng Wu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for intrusion detection based on regular expression matching. The mechanisms partition a regular expression (RegEx) rule set into a plurality of different partitions and distributes the ...