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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:
Mar. 16, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Steven J. Battle, Austin, TX (US);

Salma Ayub, Austin, TX (US);

Brian D. Barrick, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Joshua W. Bowman, Austin, TX (US);

Susan E. Eisen, Round Rock, TX (US);

Brandon Goddard, Kirkland, WA (US);

Christopher M. Mueller, Round Rock, TX (US);

Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3863 (2013.01); G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 9/30116 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer system, processor, and method for processing information is disclosed that includes partitioning a logical register in the processor into a plurality of ranges of logical register entries based upon the logical register entry, assigning at least one recovery port of a history buffer to each range of logical register entries, initiating a flush recovery process for the processor, and directing history buffer entries to the assigned recovery port based upon the logical register entry associated with the history buffer entry.


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