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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2008
Man Trinh, San Jose, CA (US);
Goichiro Ono, San Jose, CA (US);
Yihui Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bay Microsystems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A hardware-based technique for policing traffic in a network node involves programming a set of algorithm-specific policing primitives that establishes a relationship between condition primitives and action primitives and populating a searchable memory with a set of indexed action primitives. Action primitives are then selected from the searchable memory in response to condition primitives related to a received datagram. Policing actions related to the datagram are performed in response to the action primitive. Because the algorithm-specific policing primitives are programmable, a network node can be adapted to implement a wide variety of policing algorithms. Additionally, multiple different policing algorithms can be implemented in hardware without the need for a different set of combinational logic for each different policing algorithm.