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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
May. 09, 2003
Applicant:
Christopher Alan Greer, Allen, TX (US);
Inventor:
Christopher Alan Greer, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for increasing transaction entries in a hardware queue of the type having a fixed number of storage elements. One of a plurality of transaction entries in one of the storage elements is accessed through at least one pointer having one or more first bits that identify the one element and one or more second bits that identify the one transaction entry within the one element. Information that is part of the one transaction entry is modified when the one transaction entry is accessed from the one storage element.