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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:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2004
Bratin Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew C. Merten, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sebastien Hily, Hillsboro, OR (US);
David A. Koufaty, Portland, OR (US);
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Bratin Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew C. Merten, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sebastien Hily, Hillsboro, OR (US);
David A. Koufaty, Portland, OR (US);
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a predictor to predict contention of an operation to be executed in a program. The operation may be processed based on a result of the prediction, which may be based on multiple independent predictions. In one embodiment, the operation may be optimized if no contention is predicted. Other embodiments are described and claimed.