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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:
Jan. 14, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2009
Applicants:

Zhen Fang, Portland, OR (US);

David J. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);

Michael W. Leddige, Beaverton, OR (US);

Inventors:

Zhen Fang, Portland, OR (US);

David J. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);

Michael W. Leddige, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a memory request from a device coupled to an input/output (IO) interconnect, accessing a mapping table associated with the IO interconnect to determine if an address range including an address of the memory request is coherent, and if so, sending the memory request and a coherency indicator to indicate the coherent state of data at the address, otherwise sending the memory request and the coherency indicator to indicate a non-coherent state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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