The present invention meets these needs by providing a dedicated parsing processor and
method of parsing packets to meet the above needs. In one embodiment, the parsing pro …

Offloading application level communication functions from a host processor. The offloading
apparatus can be configured as either a pre-processor or as a co-processor. An interface is …

There is disclosed apparatus and methods of multicasting in a shared address space. There
may be defined a number of portions of the address space. There may be groups of the …

This application is related to and shares a common disclo Sure with commonly-assigned
copending applications US application Ser. No. 10/790966, titled “System and Method for …

A method and system for load balancing switch modules in a server system and a computer
system utilizing the same is disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises assigning …

(57) ABSTRACT A pipelined search engine device. Such as a longest prefix match (LPM)
search engine device, includes a hierarchical memory and a pipelined tree maintenance …

FIG. 1 depicts conventional networks 10 and 20 which may be connected to the Internet 30.
Each network 10 and 20 includes host 12, 14 and 16 and 22 and 24, respectively. Each …

There is disclosed a bus optimization technique. Pursuant to the bus optimization technique,
the output buffer and output logic are removed from port units of a switch and are included …

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A variable size first in first out (FIFO) memory is disclosed. The variable size FIFO memory
may include head and tail FIFO memories operating at a very high data rate and an off chip …