Patent ID: 8621622

Claim:
A system for data container adaptation, comprising: a plurality of container conditioners; and a plurality of input selectors, each input selector connecting a respective container conditioner to a subset of input ports of a set of input ports of a switching node; each container conditioner comprising: a plurality of pipelined processing units, each for identifying a container condition of a respective condition type of a predefined set of condition types; a plurality of buffers, each coupled to a respective processing unit, for holding characterizing data relevant to a respective container condition; and an output selector for transferring characterizing data held in said plurality of buffers to a notification module for generating notifications based on content of said characterizing data; each input port of said set of input ports configured to: receive incoming data containers; direct said incoming data containers to a respective container conditioner through a respective input selector; receive processed data containers from said respective container conditioner through said respective input selector; and direct said processed data containers to a switching fabric of said switching node for switching to respective receivers.