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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2004
Stephen R. Van Doren, Northborough, MA (US);
Gregory Edward Tierney, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Simon C. Steely, Jr., Hudson, NH (US);
Stephen R. Van Doren, Northborough, MA (US);
Gregory Edward Tierney, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Simon C. Steely, Jr., Hudson, NH (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a first node that provides a broadcast request for data. The first node receives a read conflict response to the broadcast request from the first node. The read conflict response indicates that a second node has a pending broadcast read request for the data. A third node provides the requested data to the first node in response to the broadcast request from the first node. The first node fills the data provided by the third node in a cache associated with the first node.