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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Van L. Jacobson, Woodside, CA (US);
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Van L. Jacobson, Woodside, CA (US);
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides a system for forwarding packets with hierarchically structured variable-length identifiers (HSVLIs), wherein the computer includes a processor. During operation, the system converts an HSVLI into a number of fixed-length addresses, wherein the HSVLI indicates a piece of content and is hierarchically structured, and comprises contiguous components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. In addition, the length of a respective HSVLI is not fixed. The system further performs an effective longest-prefix-match lookup by performing multiple exact-match lookups based at least on the fixed-length addresses.