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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:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
May. 21, 2003
James N. Dieffenderfer, Apex, NC (US);
Bernard C. Drerup, Austin, TX (US);
Jaya P. Ganasan, Youngsville, NC (US);
Richard G. Hofmann, Apex, NC (US);
Thomas A. Sartorius, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas P. Speier, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Barry J. Wolford, Austin, TX (US);
James N. Dieffenderfer, Apex, NC (US);
Bernard C. Drerup, Austin, TX (US);
Jaya P. Ganasan, Youngsville, NC (US);
Richard G. Hofmann, Apex, NC (US);
Thomas A. Sartorius, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas P. Speier, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Barry J. Wolford, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a system having a plurality of snooping masters coupled to a Bus Macro, a snoop filtering device and method are provided in at least one of the plurality of snooping masters. The snoop filtering device and method parse a snoop request issued by one of the plurality of snooping masters and return an Immediate Response if parsing indicates the requested data cannot possibly be contained in a responding snooping master. If parsing indicates otherwise the at least one plurality of snoop masters searches its resources and returns the requested data if marked updated.
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