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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2017
Knuedge Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Douglas A. Palmer, San Diego, CA (US);
Jerome V. Coffin, San Diego, CA (US);
KnuEdge Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A data collecting instrument including an input coupled with an output network port of a processing device, the input configured to receive a destination address of each data packet transmitted from the output network port, where the processing device is connected to a plurality of processing devices and is configured to transmit data packets from output network ports of the processing device to other devices of the plurality; one or more address registers configured to store information about a destination address range; a counter register configured to store a counter value; and digital circuitry coupled with the input, the one or more address registers, and the counter register; the digital circuitry configured to (i) determine, based on the information stored in the one or more address registers, that the destination address is within the destination address range; and (ii) increment the counter value stored in the counter register.