US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Aug. 25 for "Chained lookups and counting in a network switch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,816, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Chained lookups and counting in a network switch" was invented by Jeffrey Huynh (San Jose, Calif.), Weihuang Wang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tsahi Daniel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gerald Schmidt (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch using a search engine to generate chained table lookup requests. After the search engine executes a first lookup, the next-pass logic in the search engine uses the first lookup result and information in the master key to generate a second lookup key as well as other parts of a second lookup request. A next-pass...