Patent ID: 8484236

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving from a network a data stream comprising one or more data character expressions; concatenating binary expressions associated with individual characters of at least one of said one or more data character expressions in one or more data binary strings, said at least one data character expressions representing a numerical value of a numerical expression, the numerical expression comprising a concatenation of said individual characters, each of said individual characters representing a digit value at an associated position in the numerical expression, said digit value having exactly one of three or more possible unique values, said numerical value comprising a sum of products, each of said products comprising one of said digit values multiplied by a positional value associated with a position of said digit value in the numerical expression; and processing a query of information in said data stream based, at least in part, on an application of an operator to at least one of said one or more data binary strings to provide a comparison of said numerical value of said numerical expression represented by said concatenation of individual characters of said at least one of said one or more character expressions with a numerical value represented by one or more query character expressions of said query.