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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000

Filed:

Apr. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:

Danielle G Lemay, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
708209 ; 712223 ;
Abstract

An arrangement for shifting packed data is provided, in which packed data have multiple partial data each having n-byte, n being an integer greater or equal 1. The arrangement comprises: a shifter for shifting the packed data by a predetermined number of bits, a mask generator for generating a mask having multiple n-byte masks concatenated to the size of the packed data, and a logical unit for logically combining said mask with said shifted packed data to generate individually shifted partial data.


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