A system and method for enabling real-time searching of patterns over a shared media including the capability of simultaneously searching multiple logical streams over the shared media. Patterns found are reported to the host system using some pre-assigned messages. One particular application of this...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6654389?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6654389 - System and method for searching patterns in real-time over a shared media