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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. 08, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven J Jahr, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Patrick A Bueb, Auburn, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packaged Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395307 ; 395306 ; 395308 ;
Abstract
Atomic list insertion is provided for multi-master bus operation where masters use different sized bus transactions that require special management techniques to prevent interleaved accesses from returning invalid data. The update of a list entry. Next field is made an atomic operation, where atomic is defined as indivisible. To this end, the list entry. Next field is subdivided into two parts and a terminator list entry is provided.