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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:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Necdet Uzun, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for realizing a content addressable memory. The content addressable memory including an associative memory portion including N entries, each entry including a key and an M-bit type indicator. The content addressable memory further including a random access memory portion. The random access memory portion includes K*N entries where a single key stored as an entry in the associative memory portion is mapped to K entries in the random access memory portion, where K is greater than 1.