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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2005
Victor A. Bennett, Rockwall, TX (US);
David A. Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Sean W. Mcgee, Austin, TX (US);
David P. Sonnier, Austin, TX (US);
Leslie Zsohar, Round Rock, TX (US);
Victor A. Bennett, Rockwall, TX (US);
David A. Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Sean W. McGee, Austin, TX (US);
David P. Sonnier, Austin, TX (US);
Leslie Zsohar, Round Rock, TX (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A fast pattern processor having an internal function bus and an external function bus. In one embodiment, a fast pattern processor includes: (1) an internal function bus, (2) an external function bus, (3) a context memory having a block buffer and a argument signature register wherein the block buffer includes processing blocks associated with a protocol data unit (PDU), (4) a pattern processing engine, associated with the context memory, that performs pattern matching and (5) a function interface system having (5A) a controller arbitration subsystem and (5B) a dispatch subsystem.