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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Govind Malalur, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Govind Malalur, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A table lookup indexing system for the transmission of data packets in a network switch. Data is received in an input port and is divided into two parts, an index portion and a bucket portion. The index portion selects a particular bucket and the combination of the index portion and bucket portion selects a specific entry in the table.