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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:
Jul. 30, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chris Peters, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395500 ; 3642393 ; 364239 ; 3642593 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A method for storing standard IEEE floating point numbers in either a first or a second encoded format. In the first encoded format, the number has an 11-bit exponent, an 18-bit mantissa, a sign bit, and a two-bit identifier that identifies the manner that the IEEE number was encoded. In the second format, the number is stored as a 30-bit integer having a two-bit identifier.