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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. 25, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1998
Anne G. O'Connell, Dublin, IE;
Peter J. Wilson, Welwyn Garden City, GB;
3 Com Technologies, Georgetown, KY;
Abstract
A method of processing data contained in data packets comprises storing a set of microcode instructions of which some are test instructions prescribing a respective test between a data pattern in a packet and a test pattern; defining by means of bit masks a respective multiplicity of programs each consisting a group of instructions selected from the said set of instructions; providing a particular one of said bit masks; reading out from storage the selected group of instructions in the program defined by said particular one of said bit masks, said selected group including at least one of said test instructions; and executing the instructions in the selected group on data packets. Matches between data patterns in said packets and a test pattern defined by said at least one test instruction may be detected. The invention preferably includes reading buffer data and applying to data packets appearing sequentially in the data a selected group of said instructions which independently test data of the data packets in turn.
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