Patent ID: 7024515
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for use with an associative memory, the method comprising: identifying a merged element based on a first element and a second element, the first element having first element indications associated therewith, said first element indications including a first operation, a first action, and a first continue indication, and the second element having second element indications associated therewith, said second element indications including a second operation and a second action; determining that the first continue indication corresponds to performing a continue action and the second operation corresponds to permit; and in response to said determining that the first continue indication corresponds to performing a continue action and the second operation corresponds to permit, causing programming of the associative memory to include a first entry and a second entry, the first entry including the merged element and a first entry continue level, the second entry including the merged element and a second entry continue level, the second entry continue level being the next in a continue series after the first entry continue level.