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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
May. 15, 2000
Howard C. Jackson, Loveland, CO (US);
Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Boulder, CO (US);
Charles H. Morris, Iii, Longmont, CO (US);
Howard C. Jackson, Loveland, CO (US);
Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Boulder, CO (US);
Charles H. Morris, III, Longmont, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A memory system is enabled to access data for multiple objects in an interleaved fashion. Object data is retrieved from a system bus via an input interface, is temporarily stored in a limited data memory of the memory system and object headers are stored in a header memory. Each object to be printed has an object header and may, or may not, have associated object data. A 'skip' function is provided to terminate a transfer function if object data is not ready. The memory system is enabled to retrieve all data in an object or cancel the object before the endo f data is reached. An identifier is associated with each data object and is subsequently reused after the original data object is transferred or cancelled. A plurality of request levels are assigned each data request to indicate the urgency of a data request, enabling multiple memory systems to operate from a single data transfer function.