ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,052, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Redberry Systems Inc. (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
"Real-time regular expression search engine" was invented by Madhavan Bakthavatchalam (Fremont, Calif.), Varadarajan Srinivasan (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Sandeep Khanna (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a malware detection device, first characters in a network traffic flow are compared with a plurality of entries within a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), the plurality of entries including a first entry that constitutes a first segment of a malware signature. In response to an output from the first TCAM indicating ...