Patent ID: 11917042
Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A method, comprising:
transmitting and receiving packets over a network by a network element; and
applying in the network element a plurality of rules to the packets, at least one of the rules specifying: expected values created as new values based on each header field of a group of header fields of the packets, including, for a given header field in the group, at least a set of multiple expected values, wherein one or more of the expected values for the set are created based on header fields comprising one or more of:
a “do-not-care” indication,
a group ID, and
an action to be applied to the packets,

when at least one given header field matches at least one of the expected values of the set.