Patents by Inventor Dharmesh KUMAR

Dharmesh KUMAR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Segmented ternary content addressable memory search architecture
    Patent number: 7804699
    Abstract: A segmented ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) search architecture is disclosed. In one embodiment, a TCAM device with a row of TCAM cells includes a first segment of the TCAM cells for determining a match of corresponding search bits of a search string with a first portion of a stored string in the first segment of the TCAM cells, an evaluation module for generating a search enable signal if the match of the corresponding search bits with the first portion of the stored string is determined, and a second segment of the TCAM cells for determining a match of remaining search bits of the search string with a remaining portion of the stored string in response to the search enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sharad Kumar Gupta, Morris Dwayne Ward, Rashmi Sachan, Dharmesh Kumar Sonkar, Sunil Kumar Misra, Yunchen Qiu, Anuroop S. S. R Vuppala
  • SEGMENTED TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY SEARCH ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20100165690
    Abstract: A segmented ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) search architecture is disclosed. In one embodiment, a TCAM device with a row of TCAM cells includes a first segment of the TCAM cells for determining a match of corresponding search bits of a search string with a first portion of a stored string in the first segment of the TCAM cells, an evaluation module for generating a search enable signal if the match of the corresponding search bits with the first portion of the stored string is determined, and a second segment of the TCAM cells for determining a match of remaining search bits of the search string with a remaining portion of the stored string in response to the search enable signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Sharad Kumar Gupta, Morris Dwayne Ward, Rashmi Sachan, Dharmesh Kumar Sonkar, Sunil Kumar Misra, Yunchen Qiu, Anuroop S.S.R. Vuppala