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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Putu Harry Subagio, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alessandro Fulli, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher A. Wildman, Alamo, CA (US);
Mingzhe Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Wei-Jen Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Chih-Tsung Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network device receives a packet that includes a plurality of sets of fields. Sets of fields of the packet are parsed and the field sets are evaluated as soon as they are available to determine whether a processing decision can be made on the packet. Additional field sets may be parsed from the packet and obtained in parallel with determining whether a processing decision can be made, but once it is determined that a processing decision can be made, the evaluating of field sets is terminated such that any further field sets of the packet are ignored for purposes of making a processing decision for the packet.