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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:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Applicants:
Stephan J. Jourdan, Portland, OR (US);
John Alan Miller, Portland, OR (US);
Namratha Jaisimha, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Stephan J. Jourdan, Portland, OR (US);
John Alan Miller, Portland, OR (US);
Namratha Jaisimha, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/42 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for storing predicted return addresses of instructions being executed by a pipelined processor, the apparatus includes a two part return address buffer that includes a speculative return address buffer and a committed return address buffer, both of which having multiple entries that may include predicted return addresses that have been pushed onto the return buffer.