The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jun. 21, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1998
Applicants:
Thomas J. Holman, Portland, OR (US);
Andrew V. Anderson, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Thomas J. Holman, Portland, OR (US);
Andrew V. Anderson, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F012/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for tracking a state of a page of a memory device which has at least a dependent bank structure. A page entry table contains attribute entries of the page. An access control circuit generates access information and a command in response to a memory access. A tracking circuit is coupled to the page entry table and the access control circuit to update the attribute entries in the page entry table according to the command and the access information.