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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2015
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jan Gray, Bellevue, WA (US);

Doug Burger, Bellevue, WA (US);

Aaron Smith, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/30076 (2013.01); G06F 9/30145 (2013.01); G06F 9/38 (2013.01); G06F 9/3802 (2013.01); G06F 9/3806 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method including fetching a group of instructions, where the group of instructions is configured to execute atomically by a processor is provided. The method further includes decoding at least one of a first instruction or a second instruction, where: (1) decoding the first instruction results in a processing of information about a group of instructions, including information about a size of the group of instructions, and (2) decoding the second instruction results in a processing of at least one of: (a) a reference to a memory location having the information about the group of instructions, including information about the size of the group of instructions or (b) a processor status word having information about the group of instructions, including information about the size of the group of instructions.


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