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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:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Anujan Varma, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Robert C. Restrick, Hipatcong, NJ (US);
Jaisimha Bannur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anujan Varma, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Robert C. Restrick, Hipatcong, NJ (US);
Jaisimha Bannur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus capable to select a queue. The apparatus includes a queue occupancy device to indicate an occupancy status of the queues, a queue occupancy cache to record an update in occupancy status of a particular queue, a next queue selector to select a queue based on said queue occupancy device and a most recently serviced queue, and a queue identification register to identify a most recently serviced queue.