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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2014
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Alexandre Gerber, Madison, NJ (US);

Changhoon Kim, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jennifer L. Rexford, Princeton, NJ (US);

Matthew Caesar, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); G06F 9/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/34 (2006.01); H04L 12/745 (2013.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/748 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/7457 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for optimized route caching includes comparing a destination address of a network packet to a first set of prefixes in a routing cache, and comparing the destination address to a second set of prefixes in a full routing table when a longest matching prefix for the destination address is not found in the routing cache. The method further includes copying the longest matching prefix and a set of sub-prefixes of the longest matching prefix from the full routing table to the routing cache, and forwarding the network packet.


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