Fu He Li

US Patent:

20120290696, Nov 15, 2012

Filed:

May 11, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/469528

Inventors:

Jianming Wu - Fremont CA, US
Guangyu Shi - Cupertino CA, US
Fu Li - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Plano TX

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709223

Abstract:

A method for determining a location of a requested resource, comprising receiving a request for a resource, wherein the resource is identified by a hierarchically structured name, decomposing the hierarchically structured name into a plurality of segments, comparing each of the plurality of segments to parent nodes of a plurality of two-level treelets, wherein the comparing of at least two of the plurality of segments to parent nodes of the plurality of two-level treelets is performed in a parallel manner, wherein combinations of two-level treelets comprise a hierarchical name of a network resource, and determining a longest prefix match of the hierarchically structured name.