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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. 15, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
John D Bunda, Austin, TX (US);
Arturo Martin-de-Nicolas, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
IP-First, L.L.C., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707101 ; 707-3 ; 348473 ; 348475 ;
Abstract
A method for improving the execution of significant bit scans on a data entity in a computer system is provided. The data entity is examined in a number of iterations equal to the base two logarithm of the size of the data entity in bits, N. Initially, half of the data entity is examined to determine if the significant bit is present. If not, the other half of the data entity is examined. The half within which the significant data entity resides is then iteratively halved and examined in each successive iteration of the method until the number of bits examined is equal to one.