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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. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
John M MacLaren, Cypress, TX (US);
Alan L Goodrum, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710128 ; 710112 ; 710113 ; 710129 ; 710108 ;
Abstract
A computer system includes a first device on a first data bus, a second device on a second data bus, and a bridge device that delivers data transactions between the two devices. The bridge device includes an execution queue that stores only a higher priority transaction and transactions initiated before the higher priority transaction, and a controller that selects transactions from the execution queue to be completed on one of the data buses.