Donald Raeburn Hooper

US Patent:

7515588, Apr 7, 2009

Filed:

Mar 18, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/804485

Inventors:

Uday R. Naik - Fremont CA, US
Alok Kumar - Santa Clara CA, US
Eswar Eduri - Santa Clara CA, US
Donald F. Hooper - Shrewsbury MA, US

Assignee:

Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

H04L 12/28
H04L 12/56
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

370392, 37039532, 707101

Abstract:

Method and apparatus to support a large Internet Protocol Forwarding Information Base. A packet is received at a network device, the packet including a destination address. A table is indexed into using a portion of the destination address to locate an entry in the table associated with the portion of the destination address. A pool index is derived from the portion of the destination address and is used to identify a pool of data blocks from among a plurality of pools of data blocks. The entry and the pool of data blocks are navigated to find a next-hop for the packet.

US Patent:

20050198361, Sep 8, 2005

Filed:

Dec 29, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/748780

Inventors:

Prashant Chandra - Sunnyvale CA, US
Uday Naik - Fremont CA, US
Alok Kumar - Santa Clara CA, US
Ameya Varde - Santa Clara CA, US
Donald Hooper - Shrewsbury MA, US
Debra Bernstein - Sudbury MA, US
Myles Wilde - Charlestown MA, US
Mark Rosenbluth - Uxbridge MA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G06F015/173

US Classification:

709235000, 709224000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for meeting a given content throughput using at least one memory channel is generally described. In accordance with one example embodiment of the invention, a method to meet a given content throughput using at least one memory channel comprising, comparing the size of at least a portion of received content to a capacity of a single contiguous location within at least one memory channel to meet a given throughput and determining whether to distribute the at least portion of received content across the at least one memory channel, based at least in part, on the comparison.