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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
May. 22, 2003
Eric Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philip Ferolito, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Morrison, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mindong Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philip Ferolito, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Morrison, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mindong Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A traffic forwarding system that uses a multicast start-of-packet (SOP) pointer to enqueue a multicast packet in packet queues. The system receives cells, assigns pointers to the cells, and stores the received cells in memory. The system assigns multicast SOP pointers to multicast SOP cells. The system reassembles cells into packets and enqueues the packets in packet queues for forwarding. A multicast packet is enqueued in a plurality of packet queues. The memory in which the multicast packet is stored is released after the multicast packet is dequeued from each of the plurality of packet queues.