Patent ID: 11943142
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 23:
24. The method of claim 23, wherein at least one of the codes is an equal-match type code or a not-equal-match type code, the at least one of the codes comprising:
an identifier that distinguishes the at least one of the codes from other types of the codes;
a nibble index that identifies a location of match data to compare within both the search key and the value field; and
a bit length that indicates a number of bits after the location within both the search key and the value field to compare as the data, wherein the at least one of the codes relates to determining if the match data of the search key is the same as the match data from the value field.