Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for identifying matches to a series of regular expressions, with the series of regular expressions including a first regular expression followed by a second regular expression, which avoids the potential...http://www.google.de/patents/US7689530?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7689530 - DFA sequential matching of regular expression with divergent states
