1. An apparatus comprising: a reconfigurable logic device, the reconfigurable logic device having firmware logic deployed thereon, the firmware logic configured to (1) receive streaming data, (2) perform regular expression pattern matching on the streaming data with respect to a plurality of patterns to detect whether any pattern matches exist within the streaming data, and (3) build a plurality of pattern indexes for the streaming data based on detected pattern matches, wherein each pattern index corresponds to a pattern against which regular expression pattern matching was performed and comprises location data for detected pattern matches.