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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:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tetsuya Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Taniguchi, Moriguchi, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395460 ; 395472 ; 395417 ; 395403 ; 364D / ; 36424341 ; 3642531 ; 3642557 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for cache lock control are designed for use with a cache memory. The cache memory has divided entries each for storing data and cache lock information. Updating of data in each of the entries of the cache memory is controlled in response to cache priority order information in each of the entries of the cache memory.