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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. 18, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Albert Petersen, Austin, TX (US);
James Nolan Hardage, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Scott Ives Remington, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for allowing autonomous, way specific tag updates. More specifically, the invention provides way specific tag and status updates while concurrently allowing reads of the ways not currently being updated. If a read hit is determined, then the read is processed in a typical fashion. However, if the read is a read miss and one of the ways is flagged as being updated, then all ways are read again once the specific way has completed its updated.