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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:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1998
Liang He, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
According to a presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, a method for interfacing a floating point-based process with an integer-based process is described, the method having the steps of providing a floating point process, providing an integer process, initiating a transfer of data from said floating point process to said integer-based process, the transfer having the steps of selecting a memory location containing a floating point value to be handed off to the integer-based process, determining whether the memory location contains a positive number or a negative number, computing the absolute value of the value in the memory location, adding a magnitude of 0.5 to the absolute value, multiplying, if the result of the determining step was negative, the results of the adding step by -1, and converting the results of the multiplying step to integer form.
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