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

Claim 0:
1. A network element, comprising:
one or more ports, to transmit and receive packets over a network; and
a packet processor, to apply 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.