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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:
Mar. 09, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1990
Douglas E Sanders, Framingham, MA (US);
Michael A Callander, Hudson, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for monitoring transactions on a system bus for invalidate requests, including a queue for storing the invalidate requests which is divided into two parts. The first part of the queue is contained within a cache controller to ensure that an invalidate request is immediately available for processing when the cache controller is otherwise idle. The second part of the queue is contained within a system interface to ensure that the system interface can detect and respond to more system transactions before the first invalidate request has been processed and to enable the system interface to be immediately aware if the entire queue is full.