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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
May. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David S Rosenthal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Curtis Priem, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVidia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711207 ; 395823 ;
Abstract
An input circuit for an input/output device adapted for use in a computer system including a first section having a storage circuit holding physical addresses of input/output devices which are translations of selected input/output bus addresses, and a comparator circuit for testing an address in a command from application programs including both data and an address for the data with the recently accessed addresses to obtain a translation from the storage circuit; and a second section including a hash table including translations of physical addresses to be placed in the storage circuit.