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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. 27, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711141 ; 711117 ;
Abstract
As much tag information as corresponds to the number of blocks stored in main memories is stored in tag memories. The tag information indicates whether or not a processor belonging to a node other than the nodes containing tag memories has made an access request and the contents of a cache have been rewritten. Bus bridges perform cache coherency control, referring to the tag information. When the tag information indicates 'Modified,' the bus bridges stop the data read from the main memories and send the correct data to the requesting processor after a copy-back process of the modified block has been completed.