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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2011
Satish Sathe, San Ramon, CA (US);
Rajendra Marulkar, Pune, IN;
Sagar Vaishampayan, Pune, IN;
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
System and method for searching a data structure are disclosed. The method includes providing a data structure that includes a plurality of data entries stored in an external random access memory (RAM) and a portion of the data structure is stored in an internal cache memory, performing one or more hash functions on each entry of the data structure to generate an encoding that maps to a location in the external RAM, maintaining a count of encodings that map to the location in the external RAM, receiving a search string, performing the one or more hash functions on the search string to generate an index to the count of encodings, and searching the data structure in accordance with the count of encodings stored in the internal cache memory and in the external RAM.