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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:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
An arbiter which arbitrates between a plurality of clients generating requests for access to a resource in a computing environment, including a memory which includes for each of the plurality of clients a request register, which is adapted to record the respective client's access requests, and a next-client pointer, which is adapted to record an identification of another one of the clients making a subsequent request to access the resource, so as to form a linked list of the requests. The arbiter further includes logic circuitry which is adapted to decide, responsive to the linked list, which of the plurality of clients is given access to the resource.