| CPC G06F 12/0646 (2013.01) [G06F 2212/1056 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |

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1. A bit-packing method for lightening a nondeterministic finite state automation (NFA) data structure in an extended regular expression matching process, comprising:
generating a nondeterministic finite state automation (NFA) corresponding to an extended regular expression; and
storing the nondeterministic finite state automation (NFA) according to a previously determined bit-packing reference,
wherein the generating of a nondeterministic finite state automation (NFA) is configured by generating the nondeterministic finite state automaton (NFA) corresponding to the extended regular expression using a Glushkov automaton transformed such that trunk lines starting from one vertex have the same label.
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