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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30982 (2013.01); G11C 7/1072 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to processing of network communications. According to an aspect of the described systems and techniques, a network device includes a content addressable memory (CAM) device including random access memory (RAM) devices; and a register configured to store a value for the RAM devices of the CAM device; wherein the CAM device is configured to retrieve data stored in the RAM devices of the CAM device, at a received address offset by the value stored in the register, for comparison to at least a portion of a search string received from a network processor to handle network packet processing.