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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Shuhua Xiang, Fremont, CA (US);
Venkata Narayana Pinnamaraju Durga, San Diego, CA (US);
MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD., , BM;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with flexible bit field search are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a filter configured to receive data packets and a descriptor. The descriptor includes a header and at least one filter descriptor rule. The header identifies a filtering mode. The at least one filter descriptor rule includes instructions that identify a filtering operation in the filtering mode. The filter is also configured to filter the data packets based, at least in part, on the filtering operation identified in the at least one filter descriptor rule.