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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Lsi Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhong Guo, Bethlehem, PA (US);

Joseph A. Manzella, Macungie, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01); H04L 12/773 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 45/60 (2013.01); H04L 45/7453 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus having a parser and a circuit is disclosed. The parser is configured to generate a source address, a destination address and information by parsing a packet received via one of a plurality of networks. The circuit is configured to search a plurality of memories in parallel during a single cycle of operation in the apparatus. The searching includes a plurality of lookups in the memories of a plurality of data sets associated with the source address, the destination address and the information, respectively. The circuit is also configured to bridge the packet between the networks in response to the data sets.


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