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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2001
Song Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Anurag P. Gupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
Raymond Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jorge Cruz-Rios, Los Altos, CA (US);
Phil Lacroute, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network device includes systems and methods for processes streams of data. The network device stores data and addresses corresponding to the streams in a memory. The addresses store pointers to the data. Output logic within the network device determines whether an address is required to be fetched. When no address is required to be fetched, then data is read from the memory. When an address is required to be fetched, the address is fetched from the memory and data is read from the memory using the fetched address. To facilitate this, notifications may be stored corresponding to the streams and notification pointers may be used to identify ones of the notifications to be processed. A prefetch pointer may also be used to identify a notification with one or more associated addresses to be prefetched.