Patent ID: 8046173

Claim:
A tangible, machine-readable media, comprising: code adapted to analyze a data sequence, consisting essentially of a plurality of symbols, based on a grammar comprising at least an initial grammar, wherein the grammar defines at least the plurality of symbols contained within the data sequence; code adapted to partition the data sequence into a plurality of sub-sequences and to calculate a statistical heuristic for each sub-sequence of the analyzed data sequence; code adapted to compare a selected statistical heuristic of a selected sub-sequence with one or more reference conditions, and to yield a termination result if the selected statistical heuristic is beyond a threshold defined by the one or more reference conditions or a non-termination result otherwise; code adapted to update the grammar and the data series with a symbol representing the selected sub-sequence based upon the non-termination result of the comparison; and code adapted to identify the selected sub-sequence as a sequence of interest based upon the termination result of the comparison.