US Patent 7908376 Data path acceleration of a network stack

An apparatus may include a flow cache module that is arranged and configured to derive, at runtime, a custom sequence of code segments for packets belonging to a specific connection using a first packet of the specific connection and a parser module that is arranged and configured to identify packets as belonging to the specific connection using an Internet Protocol (IP) tuple of the packets, where the flow cache module is arranged and configured to apply the custom sequence of code segments to the identified packets.