US Patent Issued to SonicWALL on Oct. 7 for "Data pattern analysis using optimized deterministic finite automaton" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,210, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SonicWALL Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data pattern analysis using optimized deterministic finite automaton" was invented by Aleksandr Dubrovsky (San Mateo, Calif.), Justin Michael Brady (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Yanovsky (Los Altos, Calif.) and Boris Yanovsky (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data pattern analysis using deterministic finite automaton are described herein. In one embodiment, a number of transitions from a current node to one or more subsequent nodes representing one or more sequences of data patterns is determined, where each of the current node and sub...