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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:
Jan. 16, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2003
Applicants:

Balaji Parthasarathy, Phoenix, AZ (US);

David Smiley, Chandler, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Balaji Parthasarathy, Phoenix, AZ (US);

David Smiley, Chandler, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for balancing memory access latency and bandwidth is generally described. In accordance with one example embodiment of the invention, a method comprising determining at least one characteristic of a memory request, and selectively leaving an accessed memory page open after a memory access based, at least in part, on the at least one characteristic for the memory request, to balance memory access latency and bandwidth of a subsequent memory request(s).


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