Patent ID: 7061491

Claim:
A method for determining a combinatorial identity of a source set from a source multiset space, said source multiset having a plurality of elements comprising the steps of: a) configuring a device in at least one of hardware, firmware and software to carry out an attractor process for mapping said source multiset to an attractor space, said attractor process being an iterative process which cause said plurality of elements to converge on one of at least two different behaviors defined within said attractor space as a result of said iterative process, said configuring step including inputting a characterization of the source multiset to input to said device the number of distinct elements of said source multiset; b) using said device, executing said mapping of said plurality of elements of said source multiset to one or more coordinates of said attractor space; c) mapping said attractor space coordinates into a target space representation, said target space representation including at least the attractor space coordinates; d) storing the representation from said target space.