Patent ID: 8995460
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a first buffer operable to receive a packet data stream; a second buffer operable to receive embedded control data associated with the packet data stream; a selected pattern data value comprising a repeating pattern found in a packet of the packet data stream and having defined and aligned boundaries; a pattern sniffer operable to detect a plurality of locations in the received packet data stream equal to the selected pattern data value; an inserter operable to instruct a combiner to select one of a first and second input to generate an output data packet stream, the first input of the inserter comprising output from the first buffer and the second input of the inserter is output from the second buffer, the output of the second buffer comprising the embedded control data to be substituted for the selected pattern data value, the embedded control data including a pointer associated with a location of a next instance of the embedded control data thereby creating a linked list identifying each instance of the selected data pattern value in the packet data stream.