Network address forwarding table lookup apparatus and method

Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Switching a message which includes an address header

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C709S245000, C711S205000, C711S207000

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention discloses a network address forwarding table lookup apparatus and method for identifying a network address to determine a next hop address to which data packets having the network address should be forwarded. The apparatus comprises a memory storing a compression-trie forwarding table. The forwarding table has multiple level modules in a compression-trie structure. With the present invention, it is possible to achieve fast IP address lookup with a compact-sized compression-trie forwarding table.

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patent: 2002/0080798 (2002-06-01), Hariguchi et al.
patent: 2002/0172203 (2002-11-01), Ji et al.

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