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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:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Reinders, Beaverton, OR (US);
Joe Bonasera, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711170 ; 711173 ; 711209 ;
Abstract
The present invention overcomes the drawbacks of conventional operating system implementations of virtual to physical memory address mapping by providing a method for free physical page management and translation of virtual addresses to physical addresses that increases the effectiveness of the cache memory by reducing the thrashing caused by unfavorable mapping of virtual to physical addresses.