Abstract: A pistonless combustion flywheel engine includes two subsystems that work together to permit a rotary flywheel-disk to produce the conventional 4 strokes of a combustion engine within a single rotation of the flywheel-disk. The engine includes a flywheel-disk having a mass and is configured to deliver rotational inertia and torque. A primary subsystem comprises the flywheel-disk and an outer housing block configured to generate a combustion cycle. A second subsystem is located within the housing block and is configured to generate an intake cycle, a compression cycle, and an exhaust cycle. These cycles being performed externally to the flywheel-disk. Use of the primary subsystem and the second subsystem allows for the combustion cycle to occur on every revolution of the flywheel-disk.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recognizing a search pattern in an input string of bits is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, a portion of the string of bits is selected as a currently selected portion. Based upon the search pattern and the bits of the string of bits immediately preceding the currently selected portion, a first set of occurrence patterns is determined. The first set of occurrence patterns is determined such that if any of the occurrence patterns in the first set of occurrence patterns are contained in the currently selected portion of the string of bits, the string of bits contains the search pattern. A determination is then made whether the currently selected portion contains any of the occurrence patterns in the first set of occurrence patterns. Thus, based on whether the currently selected portion contains any of the occurrence patterns in the first set of occurrence patterns, it is determined whether the string of bits contains the search pattern.