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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2012
Applicants:
Jim Cathey, Greenacres, WA (US);
Timothy S. Michels, Greenacres, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jim Cathey, Greenacres, WA (US);
Timothy S. Michels, Greenacres, WA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2011.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A programmable packet switching controller has a packet buffer, a pattern match module, a programmable packet classification engine and an application engine. The packet classification engine has a decision tree-based classification logic for classifying a packet. The application engine has a number of programmable sub-engines arrayed in a pipelined architecture. The sub-engines include a source lookup engine, a destination lookup engine and a disposition engine, which are used to make a disposition decision for the inbound packets in a processing pipeline.