ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,340, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Single lookup entry for symmetric flows" was invented by Eliel Louzoun (Jerusalem), Ben-Zion Friedman (Jerusalem), Eli Sorin (Mitzpe Aviv, Israel) and Nir Haber (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a mechanism for maintaining a single lookup table entry for symmetric/bidirectional flows. Multiple recipes are stored for each flow. A recipe is employed to select address information from an incoming packet header based on the packet's direction. The address information and an index are employed to generate a lookup key to find the single ...