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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:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen D. Jue, Round Rock, TX (US);
Matthew B. Mendelow, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 9/00 ; G06F 9/24 ; G06F 9/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 9/00 ; G06F 9/24 ; G06F 9/445 ;
Abstract
A method of initializing random access memory during a BIOS process executed by a processor that is configured to perform speculative reading. The ROM BIOS is modified such that speculative reading is prevented during the memory initialization.