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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:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2009
Applicants:
Aviran Kadosh, Misgav, IL;
Denis Krivitski, Nazareth Illit, IL;
Inventors:
Aviran Kadosh, Misgav, IL;
Denis Krivitski, Nazareth Illit, IL;
Assignee:
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus includes a receive port unit, a forwarding engine, a transmit port unit, and a reassembly unit. In an embodiment, the packet reassembly unit examines headers in received fragments of a data unit and using the headers to reassemble the data unit, wherein the headers correspond to a protocol layer above an IP-layer. In another embodiment, the packet reassembly unit is located downstream from the forwarding engine in a packet forwarding pipeline, and the forwarding engine skips processing fragments received subsequent to a first received fragment.