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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. 15, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert Griesemer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
Abstract
Methods and systems for executing instructions utilizing a program counter with one or more data counters are provided. A program counter specifies an instruction in an instruction section to be executed by the computer. A data counter specifies a data location in a data section that includes information to be utilized when the instruction specified by the program counter is executed. By utilizing both a program counter and a data counter, instructions can be efficiently executed without unnecessarily wasting memory space and without wasting time to access data that is not aligned.