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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l.) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;

Inventors:

Dovrat Zifroni, Shoham, IL;

Henri Sznajder, Kiryat Bialik, IL;

Dmitry Lyachover, Holon, IL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01); G06F 2212/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure provide a network device. The network device includes a search engine, a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) cache engine, a search key generation unit and an output controller. The search engine stores a lookup table of entries for rules of packet processing, and searches the lookup table in response to packets received from a network interface of the network device. The TCAM cache engine caches a subset of the entries in the lookup table based on hit statistics of the entries. The search key generation unit generates a search key based on a received packet and provides the search key to the search engine and to the TCAM cache engine. The output controller outputs a search result from the TCAM cache engine when the TCAM cache engine has a matching entry to the search key.


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