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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. 31, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bassam N Elkhoury, Longmont, CO (US);
Scott T McFarland, Kingwood, TX (US);
Miguel A Perez, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711147 ; 711146 ; 711151 ; 711119 ;
Abstract
In a method and system for performing a memory access cycle from a first processor to a memory address in a multi-processor system, the memory access cycle is initiated, and, prior to completion of the memory access cycle, a snoop routine is initiated with respect to the memory address. The memory access cycle is continued without awaiting responses from another one of the processors if a second one of the processors provides a signal which indicates that immediate completion of the memory access cycle will not disturb the integrity of data stored in the system.