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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Manoj Khare, Saratoga, CA (US);

Lily P. Looi, Portland, OR (US);

Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Faye A. Briggs, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a read request from a first node in a multi-node computer system to read data from a memory at a second node. Subsequently, a write request from a third node is received to write data to the memory at the second node. The read request and write request is detected at conflict detection circuitry. Finally, read data from the memory at the second node is transmitted to the first node.


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