System and method for parallel scanning

Details System and method for parallel scanning System and method for parallel scanning

2007-08-30

2011-11-29

Bragdon, Reginald (Department: 2189)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Shared memory area

C711S156000, C711SE12007, C710S055000, C726S022000

Reexamination Certificate

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08069315

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for parallel scanning among multiple scanning entities. According to various embodiments of the present invention, buffers are allocated from a pool of memory pages, with one packet being located on each page. Each of the pages is mapped such that unprivileged scanners, privileged scanners, and hardware-based scanners are all capable of accessing the pages. By having the packets located on separate pages, additional data other than the packets at issue do not have to be shared, and copying is not necessary to complete the scanning process.

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