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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:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1998
Gordon Taylor Davis, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Llewellyn Bradley Marshall, IV, Cary, NC (US);
Clarence Rosser Ogilvie, Huntington, VT (US);
Paul Colvin Stabler, South Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for prefetching data from storage and storing the data in a cache memory for use by an executing program includes means for detecting when a program has entered a processing loop and has completed at least one pass through the processing loop. At the completion of one pass through the processing loop, determining the requirement for additional data and prefetching the required data. Monitoring the operation of the program to detect termination of loop processing and terminating the prefetch of data from storage until the detection of a subsequent program loop.
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