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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:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
S3 Graphics Co., Ltd., , KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/328 ; G06F 1/338 ; G06F 9/30 ; G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/328 ; G06F 1/338 ; G06F 9/30 ; G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A system and method for increasing effective bus bandwidth in communicating with a graphics device. Graphics commands and associated parameters are written into a contiguous region of system memory and transmitted in a weakly ordered fashion over a bus to a graphics device. The graphics device reorders the incoming data into the same order as which the data was written into the contiguous region of system memory, thereby allowing the use of order dependent encoded commands with the weakly ordered bus interface.