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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:
Jul. 25, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Steven J. Battle, Philadelphia, PA (US);

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

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

Richard J. Eickemeyer, Rochester, MN (US);

John B. Griswell, Jr., Austin, TX (US);

Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);

Tu-An T. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30058 (2013.01); G06F 9/30021 (2013.01); G06F 9/3857 (2013.01); G06F 9/3861 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the invention include includes determining a first instruction in a processing pipeline, wherein the first instruction includes a compare instruction, determining a second instruction in the processing pipeline, wherein the second instruction includes a conditional branch instruction relying on the compare instruction, determining a predicted result of the compare instruction, and completing the conditional branch instruction using the predicted result prior to executing the compare instruction.


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