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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:
Jun. 10, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1995
Stephen R VanDoren, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Denis J Foley, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Maurice B Steinman, Marlborough, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A command queueing apparatus for directing address and command information amongst the various interfaces, or consumers, on a multi-CPU node in a computer system. The apparatus includes a core queue containing core queue entries, each core queue entry corresponding to a pending system bus operation. Each core queue entry includes one or more consumer information fields specific to each consumer. Also included is a plurality of virtual queues, each virtual queue corresponding to a consumer, each virtual queue having a virtual queue entry. A virtual queue entry for a consumer is a subset of the fields of a core queue entry, the subset of fields including the consumer information fields for the consumer corresponding to the virtual queue.