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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2011
Vamsi M. Tatapudi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chien-hsien Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Philip Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vamsi M. Tatapudi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chien-Hsien Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Philip Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a network device, method and apparatus for processing data. The present invention includes at least one ingress module for performing switching functions on incoming data. The invention further includes a memory management unit (MMU) for storing the incoming data, and at least one egress module for transmitting the incoming data to at least one egress port. Further, in the present invention, the memory management unit further comprises a cell copy count pool (CCP) memory, wherein the CCP determines when a memory cell can be made available.