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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. 29, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gilbert A Neiger, Portland, OR (US);
Nicholas D Wade, Portland, OR (US);
Kai Cheng, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711146 ; 709213 ; 712 30 ;
Abstract
In some embodiments, a computer system includes nodes connected through conductors. At least some of the nodes each include memory and processing circuitry to receive snoop requests in a node reception order and to initiate snoops of the memory in the node before the snoop requests are in a global order. The at least some nodes also each include an ordering buffer to receive the snoop requests and provide them at an output of the ordering buffer in the global order.