Patents by Inventor Ben Pontius

Ben Pontius has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method of parallel pattern matching
    Patent number: 7240048
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for creating a finite state automata (FSA) (FIG. 1, blocks 110–180) that matches patterns in parallel including the steps of creating states of the automata from a set of patterns to be matched (FIG. 2, blocks 210–280) and passing over the patterns a second time adding transitions to the states to match all the possible that can start within the pattern (FIG. 3, blocks 0–7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Ben Pontius
  • System and method of paralled pattern matching
    Publication number: 20050251509
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for creating a finite state automata (FSA) (FIG. 1, blocks 110-180) that matches patterns in parallel including the steps of creating states of the automata from a set of patterns to be matched (FIG. 2, blocks 210-280) and passing over the patterns a second time adding transitions to the states to match all the possible patterns that can start within the pattern (FIG. 3, blocks 0-7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventor: Ben Pontius