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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2011
Satish Sathe, San Ramon, CA (US);
Rajendra Marulkar, Pune, IN;
Sagar Vaishampayan, Pune, IN;
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for controlling updates of a data structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a data structure that includes a hierarchically arranged set of nodes and branches, and each node has two or less branches, recording a total number of nodes in the data structure, determining whether to update the data structure according to one or more triggering conditions, generating an updated data structure in response to the one or more triggering conditions, and storing the updated data structure in a memory. The method of recording a total number of nodes includes incrementing a count of the total number of nodes by one when a new node is added to the data structure, and decrementing a count of the total number of nodes by one when a node is removed from the data structure.