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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:
Mar. 03, 2009

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2005
Applicants:

Martin Dixon, Portland, OR (US);

Michael Cornaby, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Michael Fetterman, Cambourne, GB;

Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Inventors:

Martin Dixon, Portland, OR (US);

Michael Cornaby, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Michael Fetterman, Cambourne, GB;

Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

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

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for requesting an allocation of memory to be a backing store for architectural state information of a processor and storing the architectural state information in the backing store using an application. In this manner, the backing store and processor enhancements using information in the backing store may be transparent to an operating system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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