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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Bulent Abali, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Alper Buyuktosunoglu, White Plains, NY (US);
Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments are provided for providing a dynamic random-access memory ('DRAM') cache as second type memory in a computing system by a processor. A selected amount of bytes in a memory line may be cleared using one or more spare bits of the DRAM, a data compression operation, or a combination thereof. A cache directory and data may be stored in the memory line. The DRAM cache is configured as a cache of a second type memory.