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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:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2001
Applicants:
Spencer M. Gold, Pepperell, MA (US);
Julie M. Staraitis, Ayer, MA (US);
Masooma Bhiawala, Boxboro, MA (US);
Inventors:
Spencer M. Gold, Pepperell, MA (US);
Julie M. Staraitis, Ayer, MA (US);
Masooma Bhiawala, Boxboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides methods and memory structures for efficient tracking and recycling of physical register assignments. The disclosed methods and memory structures each provide an approach to reduce the size of the memory structures needed to track the usage of the physical registers and the recycling of these registers.