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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:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3372 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3372 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for preventing over-prefetching from a buffer receives an address of a last data set item in a data buffer, and reads data from the data buffer into a read streamer buffer starting at a data buffer start address until the address of said last item.