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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:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nitin V Sarangdhar, Beaverton, OR (US);
Konrad K Lai, Aloha, OR (US);
Gurbir Singh, Portland, OR (US);
Peter D MacWilliams, Aloha, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395285 ; 395292 ; 395831 ; 395859 ; 34082507 ; 34082552 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the bus of the computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for permitting out-of-order replies in a pipelined bus system. The out-of-order responses include the sending of tokens between both the requesting agents and the responding agents in the computer system without the use of dedicated token buses.