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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:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Applicants:
Sandeep K. Jain, Portland, OR (US);
Howard David, Portland, OR (US);
Udayan Mukherjee, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Sandeep K. Jain, Portland, OR (US);
Howard David, Portland, OR (US);
Udayan Mukherjee, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method determining if an access queue associated with a channel of a memory has been empty for a predetermined time period and if so, de-asserting a clock enable signal for all ranks of the channel of the memory, otherwise providing a next memory access request from the access queue to the channel of the memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.