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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:
Sep. 29, 2009

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2006
Applicants:

Srihari Makineni, Portland, OR (US);

Jaideep Moses, Portland, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);

Ramesh Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);

Don Newell, Portland, OR (US);

LI Zhao, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Srihari Makineni, Portland, OR (US);

Jaideep Moses, Portland, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);

Ramesh Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);

Don Newell, Portland, OR (US);

Li Zhao, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

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

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for incrementing a counter value associated with a cache line if the cache line is inserted into a first level cache, and storing the cache line into a second level cache coupled to the first level cache or a third level cache coupled to the second level cache based on the counter value, after eviction from the first level cache. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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