US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 26 for "Tokenizer and wildcard lookup" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,023, issued on May 26, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tokenizer and wildcard lookup" was invented by Rajshekhar Biradar (Bangalore, India), Sunil Kulkarni (Bangalore, India) and Manjunath Shivanna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe tokenizing a data sequence to perform a wildcard lookup. For example, a network device (such as a NIC or a switch) can receive a data sequence (e.g., an IP address, Uniform Resource Locator (URL), domain name, etc.) which can be broken down into separate tokens. After identifying a first token, the network device can search a wil...