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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kim A. Meinerth, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Aditya Sreenivas, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Krishnan Sreenivas, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
Abstract
A method for controlling processing of overlay requests is disclosed. The method comprises the step of disabling an overlay request to a memory. The overlay request to system memory has expedited processing priority over requests to a system memory by other devices. The overlay request is disabled for a predetermined time period and enabled after the predetermined time period has elapsed.