Any practical scanner has to use technology similar to this. McAfee has been using a scanner based on these principles since before 1999.
This is hardly a unique idea. People are all the time creating meta-languages to handle specific jobs. Surely they don't each deserve a patent for their creations?
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Any practical scanner has to use technology similar to this. McAfee has been using a scanner based on these principles since before 1999. This is hardly a unique idea. People are all the time creating meta-languages to handle specific jobs. Surely they don't each deserve a patent for their creations?