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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2018
Cavium, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Zubin Hemantkumar Shah, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shih-Jeff Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Ravindran Suresh, San Jose, CA (US);
Leonid Livak, San Jose, CA (US);
Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
System and method of network packet switching using a table representation of a trie data structure to identify a timestamp (TS) range (or time range) for a received packet based on the packet timestamp (TS). The trie data structure is programmed with a plurality of predetermined time ranges. Each node in the trie data structure corresponds to a TS prefix and is associated with a corresponding predetermined time range. A search engine in the network switch can use the packet TS as a key to traverse the trie data structure and thereby matching the packet TS to a predetermined time range according to a Longest Prefix Match (LPM) process. Provided with the TS ranges of the incoming packets, various applications and logic engines in the network switch can accordingly process the packets, such as determining a new destination IP address and performing channel switch accordingly.