Patent ID: 9436782
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A transmission device comprising: an associative memory in which, when data is specified, contents of the memory are searched for the data; a detector configured to detect an access rate to the associative memory; an estimation unit configured to estimate a temperature of the associative memory, based on the access rate to the associative memory; a prediction unit configured to predict a time period until the temperature of the associative memory reaches a specified temperature, based on the temperature estimated by the estimation unit; and an access controller configured to control an access to the associative memory, based on the time period predicted by the prediction unit, wherein the associative memory includes a plurality of entries, and the access controller deletes at least one of the plurality of entries when the time period predicted by the prediction unit elapses.