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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2002
Applicants:

Gregory M. Wright, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mario I. Wolczko, San Carlos, CA (US);

Matthew L. Seidl, Longmont, CO (US);

Inventors:

Gregory M. Wright, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mario I. Wolczko, San Carlos, CA (US);

Matthew L. Seidl, Longmont, CO (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer system providing hardware states for garbage collection including a plurality of processors, an object cache operatively connected to at least one of the plurality of processors, and a warden operatively connected to the object cache, wherein the warden broadcasts a non-local command to the object cache whenever the tagged cache line is evicted and crosses the garbage collection boundary and the modified-reference bit in the tagged cache line is set.


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