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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:
Aug. 03, 2010

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2006
Applicants:

David B. Glasco, Austin, TX (US);

Lingfeng Yuan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

David B. Glasco, Austin, TX (US);

Lingfeng Yuan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

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

A technique for caching page access parameters, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes translating a given virtual address to a particular physical address using an address translation data structure. One or more page access parameters related to the particular physical address is stored in a separate page access data structure. The technique may further include accessing the page access data structure to manage access to memory as a function of the page access data.


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