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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:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2005
Applicants:
John William Bockhaus, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
David Binford, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
John William Bockhaus, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
David Binford, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
System and method of memory utilization in a computer system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to receipt of a DMA transaction from an entity, determining whether a number of pending memory requests for the entity is less than a prefetch limit therefor; and responsive to a determination that the number of pending memory requests for the entity is less than the prefetch limit therefor, issuing a new memory request comprising a portion of the received DMA transaction.