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US 2010/0169608 A1Published application
Flexible counter update and retrieval
AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.
InventorsAlbert Weichung KUO, Reuven Meyer SAMUEL, Debashis BASU, Arunachalam VAIDYANATHAN, Spencer GREENE
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Abstract
A network device includes one or more processing units and an external memory. Each of the one or more processing units includes a centralized counter configured to perform accounting for the respective processing unit. The external memory is associated with at least one of the one or more processing units and is configured to store a group of count values for the at least one processing unit.
Claims2
A network device comprising:
- one or more processing units, each of the one or more processing units comprising a centralized counter configured to perform accounting for the respective processing unit;
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- an external memory associated with at least one of the one or more processing units and configured to store a plurality of count values for the at least one processing unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.