A apparatus and method that provides a routing engine for processing data packets based upon certain rules that are compiled and applied real-time via a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, a runtime compiler, or the like. The routing engine parses and analyzes an incoming IP flow. A set of rules are developed...http://www.google.com/patents/US6598034?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6598034 - Rule based IP data processing