| CPC G06N 5/04 (2013.01) [G06F 16/24568 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] | 20 Claims | 

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               1. An integrated circuit, comprising: 
            a memory including a finite automata (FA) graph, wherein the FA graph includes a plurality of nodes connected by directional arcs, the plurality of nodes including a skip node capable of processing bytes remaining in a payload; and 
                one or more hardware-based regular expression (RegEx) accelerators connected to the memory, wherein each RegEx accelerator includes a regular expression engine, the regular expression engine configured to perform a regular expression operation on the payload. 
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