Abstract: Provided is a biological fluidic system that provides a high degree of sterilization by performing the biological processing in a closed system in which the fluid is contained in chambers that are isolated from the environment in a manner that does not permit ingress of contaminants.

Abstract: A method for processing communication traffic includes receiving an incoming stream of compressed data conveyed by a sequence of data packets, each containing a respective portion of the compressed data. The respective portion of the compressed data contained in the first packet is stored in a buffer, having a predefined buffer size. Upon receiving a subsequent packet, at least a part of the compressed data stored in the buffer and the respective portion of the compressed data contained in the subsequent packet are decompressed, thereby providing decompressed data. A most recent part of the decompressed data that is within the buffer size is recompressed and stored in the buffer.

Abstract: A method for error detection includes storing in an associative memory multiple data entries, each data entry including a data item together with one or more check symbols computed with respect to the data item. A predetermined sequence of search keys is applied to the memory, thereby causing the memory to generate, in parallel, match results with respect to the data entries. The match results are processed in order to identify an error in at least one of the data entries.

Abstract: A method for processing data includes encoding a finite automaton, which includes states and transitions between the states that express a plurality of predefined patterns, by grouping the states of the automaton into sets according to a common property shared by the states in each set, and assigning codes to the states according to the grouping. The codes are stored in an electronic memory, along with rules that are associated with the patterns. The automaton is traversed in order to identify one or more of the patterns in an input sequence of data elements by iteratively reading out the codes from the memory responsively to the data elements and to the codes that have been previously read out. Upon identifying a given pattern in the input sequence, an associated action is performed.

Abstract: A method for processing data includes accepting a specification of a plurality of patterns, each pattern defining a respective uncompressed sequence of symbols. Multi-pattern matching is applied to an incoming stream of compressed communication traffic containing compression metadata so as to identify the patterns occurring in the stream while using the compression metadata to skip over parts of the stream.

Abstract: A method for image comparison includes reading from a memory in a computerized image processor a source image and a target image. The source and target images are segmented, using the image processor, into respective pluralities of source and target arrays, respectively including source and target array elements, each array element including a matrix of one or more pixels from a respective image, each of the source arrays having a respective position in the source image, and each of the target arrays corresponding respectively to one of the source arrays based on the respective position. An asymmetric warping process is applied between each of the source arrays and each of the respectively corresponding target arrays so as to compute respective array similarity scores. The respective array similarity scores are combined so as to compute an image similarity score of the target image with respect to the source image.

Abstract: A method for image processing includes receiving in a computerized image processor a source image having a source size and a definition of a target size that is different from the source size, and defining a plurality of different sequences of two or more different image retargeting operations that when applied to the source image, generates respective target images of the target size. The different sequences are automatically tested, using the image processor, by measuring respective similarities of the respective target images to the source image. One of the sequences is selected responsively to the similarities, and the selected one of the sequences is applied to the source image, using the image processor, in order to generate a target image.

Abstract: A method for processing communication traffic includes receiving an incoming stream of compressed data conveyed by a sequence of data packets, each containing a respective portion of the compressed data. The respective portion of the compressed data contained in the first packet is stored in a buffer, having a predefined buffer size. Upon receiving a subsequent packet, at least a part of the compressed data stored in the buffer and the respective portion of the compressed data contained in the subsequent packet are decompressed, thereby providing decompressed data. A most recent part of the decompressed data that is within the buffer size is recompressed and stored in the buffer.

Abstract: A method for error detection includes storing in an associative memory (24, 50, 70) multiple data entries (30), each data entry including a data item (28) together with one or more check symbols (40) computed with respect to the data item. A predetermined sequence of search keys (32) is applied to the memory, thereby causing the memory to generate, in parallel, match results with respect to the data entries. The match results are processed in order to identify an error in at least one of the data entries.

Abstract: A method for processing data includes accepting a specification of a plurality of patterns, each pattern defining a respective uncompressed sequence of symbols. Multi-pattern matching is applied to an incoming stream of compressed communication traffic containing compression metadata so as to identify the patterns occurring in the stream while using the compression metadata to skip over parts of the stream.

Abstract: A method for communication management includes detecting addresses of peer nodes (34) belonging to a service layer (30) of a distributed application running on a computer network (22). Responsively to the detected addresses, filtering of communication traffic transmitted by client computers (26) is actuated so as to limit access by the client computers to the distributed application.