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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:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
May. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A queue having a 'duplicate' counter associated with each entry whereby duplicate data is not stored in the queue. Before data is placed in the queue, the queue is searched for an entry matching the data to be written. If a match is found, the duplicate counter associated with the entry is incremented. Further, if a match is found and the data stored therein is inconsistent with the current data, the contents of the queue are updated and the duplicate counter associated with the entry is reset to one. If a match is not found, the data is written to the queue and the duplicate counter associated with the entry is initialized to one.