Routing by resolution

Filtering and route lookup in a switching device

Programmable and high performance switch for data center networks

Systolic array architecture for fast IP lookup

Network apparatus, control method thereof, control program and packet network system

String lookup using three-transition tree structure

Separation of data and control in a switching device

Method and system for routing network traffic for a blade server

Systematic framework for application protocol field extraction

Method and apparatus for virtual circuit routes

Applying a table-lookup approach to load spreading in forwarding data in a network

PACKET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

Methods and apparatus to route fibre channel frames using reduced forwarding state on an FCOE-to-FC gateway

Methods and apparatus to reduce forwarding state on an FCoE-to-FC gateway using port-specific MAC addresses

TCAM search unit including a distributor TCAM and DRAM and a method for dividing a database of TCAM rules

Regular expression matching using TCAMs for network intrusion detection

Tri-colour data packet counting for tri-colour marking policies

Longest prefix match internet protocol content addressable memories and related methods

DENSE MODE CODING SCHEME

Method and apparatus for forwarding packets by obtaining addresses of the packets using a preset forwarding information base entry

Methods and apparatus to route control packets based on address partitioning

Power efficient and rule movement optimized TCAM management

Filtering and route lookup in a switching device

METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REPRESENTING A PARTITION OF N W-BIT INTERVALS ASSOCIATED TO D-BIT DATA IN A DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

System and method for adapting a packet processing pipeline

Memory organization in a switching device

Updating prefix-compressed tries for IP route lookup

Hash-based prefix-compressed trie for IP route lookup

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE, LOW-POWER DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT FABRIC

Method and apparatus for logically expanding the length of a search key

System for IP address lookup using substring and prefix matching

Demand based distribution of internet protocol forwarding information with a router

Method and device for installing and distributing routes

Method, device, computer program product and system for representing a partition of n w-bit intervals associated to d-bit data in a data communications network

TCAM management approach that minimize movements

System and method for performing longest common prefix strings searches

SERVER DISCOVERY IN A NEIGHBOUR NETWORK OF AN IP NODE

System for forwarding packets with hierarchically structured variable-length identifiers using an exact-match lookup engine

System for forwarding a packet with a hierarchically structured variable-length identifier

System and method of fast adaptive TCAM sorting for IP longest prefix matching

METHOD FOR FORWARDING PACKET IN MPLS L3VPN

Systematic approach towards minimizing packet classifiers

LONGEST PREFIX MATCHING FOR NETWORK ADDRESS LOOKUPS USING BLOOM FILTERS

Demand-based distribution of internet protocol forwarding information within a router

Efficient ACL lookup algorithms

Systems and methods for optimized route caching

Dense mode coding scheme

Hash functions for applications such as network address lookup

Network address lookup based on bloom filters

Dynamic tree bitmap for IP lookup and update

Memory organization in a switching device

Method of performing table lookup operation with table index that exceeds cam key size

System and method for parsing and allocating a plurality of packets to processor core threads

Method and apparatus for virtual circuit routes

Separation of data and control in a switching device

Statistics based forwarding information base repopulation

Method and apparatus for distributing dynamic auto-summarization of internet protocol reachable addresses

System and method for efficiently searching a forwarding database that is split into a bounded number of sub-databases having a bounded size

Method and apparatus for deep packet processing

Longest prefix match (LPM) algorithm implementation for a network processor

Apparatus and method for route summarization and distribution in a massively parallel router

Ad hoc network formation and management based on aggregation of ad hoc nodes according to an aggregation hierarchy

System and method of fast adaptive TCAM sorting for IP longest prefix matching

Method and apparatus for storing tree data structures among and within multiple memory channels

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY ENTRIES FOR USE IN A DATA PACKET ROUTING DEVICE

Method and system for hash table based routing via table and prefix aggregation

Method and system for hash table based routing via a prefix transformation

Dense mode coding scheme

Method for improving web performance by adapting servers based on client cluster characterization

Approach for fast IP address lookups

Techniques for accessing a table

System and method for assembling a data packet

Method and system for providing cascaded trie-based network packet search engines

Method and apparatus for performing link aggregation

Pattern matching technique for high throughput network processing

Routing system and route update method

Compression of a routing header in a packet by a mobile router in an ad hoc network

Ad hoc network formation and management based on aggregation of ad hoc nodes according to an aggregation hierarchy

Method and system for routing an IP packet

Methods and systems for routing packets with a hardware forwarding engine and a software forwarding engine

Searching for strings in messages

Data structure for storing and accessing multiple independent sets of forwarding information

Method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network

Prefix search circuitry and method

Trie-type memory device with a compression mechanism

Methods for performing packet classification

Methods for performing packet classification via prefix pair bit vectors

Prefix processing technique for faster IP routing

Prefix optimizations for a network search engine

Longest prefix match lookup using hash function

Efficient content addressable memory array for classless inter-domain routing

Maskable content addressable memory

Data switch, and communication system using the data switch

Method and apparatus for deep packet processing

Data retrieval method and device

Method of using Patricia tree and longest prefix match for policy-based route look-up

Memory organization in a switching device

Data structure identifying for multiple addresses the reverse path forwarding information for a common intermediate node and its use

Method and apparatus to support a large internet protocol forwarding information base

Separation of data and control in a switching device

Method and system for performing longest prefix matching for network address lookup using bloom filters

Filter based longest prefix match algorithm

Method and apparatus for physical width expansion of a longest prefix match lookup table

Efficient ipv4/ipv6 best matching prefix method and apparatus

Method and apparatus for generating and using enhanced tree bitmap data structures in determining a longest prefix match

Longest prefix match (LPM) algorithm implementation for a network processor

Apparatus and method using hashing for efficiently implementing an IP lookup solution in hardware

System, apparatus, and method for string matching

Parallel asymmetric binary search on lengths

Prefix matching structure and method for fast packet switching

Dynamic forwarding method using binary search

Quality of service consistency checker in traffic splitter arrangement

Apparatus and method for performing high-speed lookups in a routing table

Method and system for providing cascaded trie-based network packet search engines

IP address storage technique for longest prefix match

Apparatus and method for route summarization and distribution in a massively parallel router

Single and double tagging schemes for packet processing in a network device

Systems and methods for extending internal endpoints of a network device

Expanded host domains in PCIe fabrics

Methods and systems for synchronous communication in content provisioning

Runtime sharing of unit memories between match tables in a network forwarding element

Systems and methods for frame lookup and forwarding in a network

Real-time regular expression search engine

Packet header field extraction

Enhanced prefix matching

Access control based on range-matching

Methods and apparatus to reduce forwarding state on an FCoE-to-FC gateway using port-specific MAC addresses

Protocol-independent packet routing

Methods and systems for hybrid synchronous-asynchronous communication in content provisioning

Method and apparatus for power reduction in a multi-threaded mode

Traffic forwarding in large-scale networks

Intelligent data paths for a native load balancer

Highly-scalable virtual IP addresses in a load balancing switch

Utilizing user-specified access control lists in conjunction with redirection and load-balancing on a port

Protocol-independent packet routing

Weighted load balancing in a multistage network

Hash collision avoidance in network routing

Efficient address-based rule resolution in a network employing a bit-mapped index

Efficient content addressable memory (CAM) architecture

Apparatus and methods to store data in a network device and perform longest prefix match (LPM) processing

Apparatus and methods to compress data in a network device and perform ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) processing

System and method for increasing capacity in router forwarding tables

Method and device for improving scalability of longest prefix match

Intra-term logical or operation in a network filter