ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,248, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"High-performance multi-literal matching algorithm" was invented by Hao Chang (Shanghai), Xiang Wang (Shanghai), Yang Hong (Shanghai), Hongjun Ni (Shanghai) and Baoqian Li (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, software, and apparatus for implementing a high-performance multi-literal matching algorithm. Under aspects of a method, multi-literal matching is used during front-end processing to identify match candidates based on suffix patterns. An extended SHIFT-OR algorithm is performed using the chunk of data as an input to identify match candidates f...