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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1994
Jose Geraldo De Marco, Campinas, BR;
Jeffrey Wayne Kidd, Cary, NC (US);
Edward Hau-Chun Ku, Cary, NC (US);
Karen Park Heron, Raleigh, NC (US);
Simin Hosne Sanaye, Raleigh, NC (US);
Luis Filipe de Sousa Silva, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for efficiently routing data within a network, such as a local area network. A search tree is utilized within the bridge/router in order to store addresses. The search tree is utilized by the router for more efficiently and more quickly determining where one or more received frames of data are to be transmitted within the network. Maintenance of the search trees is also provided so that new addresses may be added to the search trees and addresses may be deleted from the search trees. The search trees are developed by partitioning the addresses into bit groups.