Expired Canadian patentCanada
Variable length string matcher
CA 2007168 C · Owner: Cohen, Craig D. · Inventors: Hou, Brian Ta-Cheng; Gutman, Michael; Pasco-Anderson, James A.
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A variable length string matcher uses absolute addressing of a history buffers the longest matching string is determined by an associative content addressable memory.
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- Filed January 4, 1990 and granted December 14, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 4, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 4, 2012.
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FiledJanuary 4, 1990
GrantedDecember 14, 1999
Term endedJanuary 4, 2010
Patent numberCA 2007168 C
Classification (IPC)G06F7/04 +2 more
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