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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. 16, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Thomas B. Maciukenas, Portland, OR (US);
Inventor:
Thomas B. Maciukenas, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for a byte swap operation on a 64 bit operand. The method of one embodiment comprises accessing an operand stored in a register. The operand is comprised of a plurality of bytes of data. A first set of bytes located in an upper half of said register is reordered. A second set of bytes located in a lower half of said register is reordered. The first set of bytes is swapped with the second set of bytes, wherein the first set of bytes is relocated to the lower half of the register and the second set of bytes is relocated to the upper half of the register.