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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.:

US 7991956 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2007
Applicants:

Rameshkumar Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);

LI Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);

Donald Newell, Portland, OR (US);

Carl Lebsack, Ames, IA (US);

Quinn A. Jacobson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Suresh Srinivas, Portland, OR (US);

Mingqiu Sun, Beaverton, OR (US);

Inventors:

Rameshkumar Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);

Li Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);

Donald Newell, Portland, OR (US);

Carl Lebsack, Ames, IA (US);

Quinn A. Jacobson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Suresh Srinivas, Portland, OR (US);

Mingqiu Sun, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

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

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first identifier with data stored by a first agent in a cache line of a cache to indicate the identity of the first agent, and storing the first identifier with the data in the cache line and updating at least one of a plurality of counters associated with the first agent in a metadata storage in the cache, where the counter includes information regarding inter-agent interaction with respect to the cache line. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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