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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3952002 ; 370392 ;
Abstract
A parser for reading bits of a packet has a set of logic circuits implemented in a computer chip; a memory interacting with the computer chip, the memory providing first data to the set of logic circuits; means for reading bits from any field of packet into the set of logic circuits, the bits providing second data to the set of logic circuits; means, responsive to the first data and the second data, for the logic circuits to interpret bits of the packet.