Patent ID: 8937945
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of processing incoming packets, the method comprising: establishing for each of a plurality of users a respective service ID bitmap adapted to indicate one or more services associated with said each user wherein each service is associated with a corresponding set of rules instantiated into a memory, each rule being associated with a respective service ID, wherein the one or more services are common among some users, and a number of elements in the one or more services being common among said some users depends on a width of an available ternary content addressable memory (TCAM); grouping a plurality of services into a common service set associated with a common set of rules; determining each user associated with the common service set; and processing each received packet from the user associated with the common service set according to the associated common set of rules indicated by the respective service ID bitmap for said user.