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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2024
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mohamed Tarek Bnziad Mohamed Hassan, Lowell, MA (US);
Aamer Jaleel, Northborough, MA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Metadata generally refers to data that describes, or gives information about, other data. Metadata can be used for a wide variety of purposes, including for ensuring the safety of memory accesses. For example, to prevent memory safety errors, metadata, which indicates the base address and size of the data, can be used to validate memory access requests as prerequisite to allowing the memory access. While there are many useful applications of metadata, including for memory safety as mentioned above, the underlying metadata storage and retrieval processes that have been developed to date suffer from various problems. The present disclosure provides an object-level metadata locator, which can allow for an internal object layout to be maintained and which can scale to an arbitrary number of objects while requiring lower memory overhead than that required in the prior art.