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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1998
Gregory M. Waters, Groton, MA (US);
Larry R. Dennison, Norwood, MA (US);
Philip P. Carvey, Bedford, MA (US);
William J. Dally, Stanford, CA (US);
William F. Mann, Sudbury, MA (US);
Avici Systems, N. Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A list of prefix keys, including enclosing prefix key pairs, are stored in leaves of a tree structure. In the leaf nodes, a prefix search key is compared to a set of prefix keys to identify a longest matching prefix. Each leaf node includes a single result pointer to a block of results and a single enclosing pointer to a result in a block of results for another node. Internal nodes which point to subsequent nodes include partitioning nodes and table nodes. In each partitioning node, a prefix search key is compared to a set of prefix keys which point to subsequent nodes through a common pointer and an index. Within each node, a middle prefix key is stored ahead of sets of high and low prefixes.