Computer hardware, namely integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; microprocessors; microprocessor cores; macro cells; microcontrollers; bus interfaces; printed circuit boards; computer software and applications, namely for the use in semantic processing of digital information content, XML content processing, anti-virus processing, intrusion detection processing, OSI Layer 4-7 content processing, semantic processing, URI normalization, data decoding, data parsing processing and data pattern matching processing; Register Transfer Logic (RTL) descriptions of flow processing microprocessors; application programming interfaces, namely for the processing, identification, parsing, rule-based filtering, storage, manipulation of tokens and productions, normalization, establishment a digital pattern signatures, or definition the context, or grammar, of incoming digital traffic flows; drivers, namely for the control of the processing, identification, parsing, rule-based filtering, manipulation of tokens and productions, storage, normalization, establishment a digital pattern signatures, and definition the context, or grammar, of incoming digital traffic flows; firmware, namely to process, identify, parse, filter, store, manipulate, normalize, and recognize a digital pattern signature according to the context, or grammar, of incoming digital traffic flows; computer hardware, computer software and applications, sold as a unit, namely that recognize, parse and semantically process messages, network data traffic or streaming data for use in computers, security sub-systems, networking equipment, namely routers, switches, web-servers, firewalls, or gateways, appliances, namely special-purpose computer systems for defined security, SPAM filtering, SOAP, XMP, financial services, or service-oriented functions; programmable and silicon chips, devices, namely specialized, often single function or embedded, computer systems, gate array, or FPGA versions of gate-level logic, namely for the development, modeling, simulation compiling, debugging, verification, construction, integration, or interfacing with semantic processing, XML content processing, anti-virus processing, intrusion detection processing, OSI Layer 4-7 content processing, URI normalization, data decoding, data parsing processing and data pattern matching processing applications; computer software for the development, testing, programming, and production of the foregoing; computer software for applications that recognize, parse and semantic process messages, network data traffic, and streaming data used in computers, security sub-systems, networking equipment and appliances sold together with electronic and printed user manuals