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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:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2006
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);
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);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first priority indicator with first data stored in a first entry of a cache memory to indicate a priority level of the first data, and updating a count value associated with the first priority indicator. The count value may then be used in determining an appropriate cache line for eviction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.