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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2001
Applicants:

Keng-ming Huang, Ilan, TW;

Chung-ju Chang, Taipei, TW;

Fang-yong Lee, Hsinchu, TW;

Kuang-chih Liu, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Keng-Ming Huang, Ilan, TW;

Chung-Ju Chang, Taipei, TW;

Fang-Yong Lee, Hsinchu, TW;

Kuang-Chih Liu, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention discloses a network address forwarding table lookup apparatus and method for identifying a network address to determine a next hop address to which data packets having the network address should be forwarded. The apparatus comprises a memory storing a compression-trie forwarding table. The forwarding table has multiple level modules in a compression-trie structure. With the present invention, it is possible to achieve fast IP address lookup with a compact-sized compression-trie forwarding table.


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