ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,541, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Network device with database for accelerating packet processing" was invented by Zvi Shmilovici Leib (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processor of a network device includes a first lookup engine that generates a first lookup key for a packet, performs a first lookup in a first database using the first lookup key, and in response to finding a match of the first lookup key in the first database, determines a plurality of processing actions to be performed for the packet. Each of multiple second lookup engines selectively p...