A method and apparatus for compressing the data associated with trie cuts (strides), and a method and apparatus for utilizing such compressed data to determine forwarding decisions for data packets in a communication network are presented. The compression technique presented generates a pair of bitmaps...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6697363?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6697363 - Method and apparatus for longest matching prefix determination in a communication network
