Patent ID: 11916795
Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for processing a received packet based on associated state information, the method comprising:
receiving, at a packet processor of a network device, packets from a network;
classifying a received packet as belonging to at least one respective identified flow from among a plurality of identified flows;
for a respective received packet that belongs to an identified flow:
updating a current state value for the identified flow based on receipt of the respective received packet;
recording a value based on the updated current state value with the respective received packet, wherein the updated current state value is indicative of a sequential location of the respective received packet in a stream of previously received packets belonging to the identified flow;
performing a first packet processing operation on the respective received packet based in part on the recorded updated current state value being equal to a first state value; and
performing a second packet processing operation on the respective received packet based in part on the recorded updated current state value being equal to a second state value, wherein the second packet processing operation is different from the first packet processing operation and the second state value is different from the first state value.