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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:
May. 25, 2010

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2007
Applicants:

William C. Hasenplaugh, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);

LI Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);

Ramesh Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);

Srihari Makineni, Portland, OR (US);

Donald Newell, Portland, OR (US);

Aamer Jaleel, Hudson, MA (US);

Simon C. Steely, Jr., Hudson, NH (US);

Inventors:

William C. Hasenplaugh, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);

Li Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);

Ramesh Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);

Srihari Makineni, Portland, OR (US);

Donald Newell, Portland, OR (US);

Aamer Jaleel, Hudson, MA (US);

Simon C. Steely, Jr., Hudson, NH (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first priority indicator with data stored in a first entry of a shared cache memory by a core to indicate a priority level of a first thread, and associating a second priority indicator with data stored in a second entry of the shared cache memory by a graphics engine to indicate a priority level of a second thread. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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