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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:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alok Singh, Fremont, CA (US);
Rajat Roy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395875 ; 39520061 ; 39520075 ; 395854 ; 370475 ;
Abstract
A method of precisely identifying the end of packet location in a memory device. A first and second memory location in the memory device are reserved and a sequence of data is written into the memory device in sequential memory locations. When the last of the sequence of data is written into memory the memory location is written into the first reserved memory location. The second memory location is written to show that the end of packet has been written into memory.