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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2007
Applicants:
Chuck Chiang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjeev Mahalawat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chuck Chiang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjeev Mahalawat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Modified flow keys holding compressed IPv6 addresses are stored in a flow table to improve memory utilization. The compressed IPv6 addresses are utilized to access a compression table holding the full IPv6 address, and full IPv6 address are substituted into the modified flow key to form an unmodified flow key.