Patent ID: 7359381
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. Hardware for correlating a transport address pair with a local endpoint association, comprising: a plurality of content addressable data cells, each including an index field, a first data field for storing at least a portion of a transport address pair, and a second data field for storing at least a portion of a corresponding local endpoint association id; a command bus; and a data bus, wherein: in response to a first SEARCH command on the command bus, if one and only one cell has matching valid transport address data in the first field, the local association data in the second field of that one cell is output on the data bus, in response to a second SEARCH command on the command bus, if one and only one cell has matching valid local association data in the second field, the transport address data in the first field of that one cell is output on the data bus, and in response to an LOAD command on the command bus, the data in the first and second data fields of a cell with a matching index field is loaded with corresponding data from data bus.