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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2012
Applicant:
Ajeer Salil Pudiyapura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ajeer Salil Pudiyapura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/753 (2013.01); H04L 12/747 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/48 (2013.01); H04L 45/742 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for organizing and grouping memory contents related to multicast routing so as to enable more efficient multicast operations. For PIM multicast routing, techniques are provided for organizing and grouping multicast routing information into data structures according to a plurality of dimensions such that multicast routing cache entries are accessible when performing a multicast routing operation by traversing the one or more data structures according to at least two of the dimensions.