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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2012
Maya Suresh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chien-hsien Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Lau, Rockville, MD (US);
Robert (Yi) LI, Fremont, CA (US);
Morris Beatty, Redwood City, CA (US);
Maya Suresh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chien-Hsien Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Lau, Rockville, MD (US);
Robert (Yi) Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Morris Beatty, Redwood City, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments that provide serial replication of multicast packets by performing a first data fetch to fetch first data from a memory buffer, the first data comprising a first packet pointer representing a first packet and a replication number indication a number of times the first packet is to be replicated. Furthermore, various embodiments are directed to performing a second data fetch to fetch second data from a memory buffer, the second data comprising a first packet pointer representing a second packet and serially replicating the first packet and the second packet based at least in part upon the replication number and a predetermined threshold value.