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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:
Nov. 29, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Per H. Hammarlund, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Liran Fishel, Raanana, IL;

Roman Gindin, Hod Hasharon, IL;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 13/4027 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a system includes rate limiter circuits corresponding to various agents that issue transactions in a virtual channel. At least one agent may be identified as a critical agent, and different rate limits (e.g., lower limits) may be selected for other agents when the critical agent is on than when the critical agent is off (e.g., higher limits).


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