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Per-flow dynamic buffer management

  • US 7,215,641 B1
  • Filed: 11/02/2004
  • Issued: 05/08/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system comprising a plurality of input devices a plurality of buffers, and a plurality of output queues interoperably connected to each other, the system further comprising a computer readable medium encoded with computer instructions executable by a processor for:

  • extracting at least one field from a data packet received via one of the plurality of input devices;

    determining a flow table index value from the at least one field, wherein the flow table index value belongs to a first set of values, and wherein a maximum number of values in the first set of values is less than a maximum number of possible flows;

    reading a flow table entry corresponding to the flow table index value; and

    comparing the flow table entry with a buffer limit value.

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