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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

May. 16, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

John Grant Bennett, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

A portion of the memory space, supported by memory chips that are being controlled by a memory controller logic, can be set aside and read requests directed to memory addresses within that portion can be redirected, by the memory controller logic, to other memory addresses at which is stored the data equivalent to the internal data of the memory controller logic that the memory controller logic seeks to return, thereby enabling the memory controller logic to indirectly return data to processes executing on the host computing device. Additionally, requests to write data to specific memory addresses, including memory addresses that can be within the set aside portion, can be interpreted, by the memory controller logic, as commands that the memory controller logic is to perform, and which impact its own internal data including commands to reset values, or start or end data collection, or other like commands.


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