ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,636, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).
"Efficient memory utilization for cartesian products of rules" was invented by Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Aviv Kfir (Nili, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes one or more ports, and action-select circuitry. The ports are to exchange packets over a network. The action-select circuitry is to determine, for a given packet, a first search key based on a first header field of the given packet, and a second search key based on a second header field of the given packet, to compare the first search key to a first group of c...