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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2009
Applicants:
Brandon Carl Smith, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jun Cao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brandon Carl Smith, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jun Cao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a plurality of search engine pipeline stages, each of the plurality of search engine pipeline stages being configured to submit a particular search request to a plurality of search engines. The apparatus may also include the plurality of search engines, each of said plurality of search engines being configured to provide search results to one or more of the plurality of search engine pipeline stages.