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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2010
Daniele Mangano, Messina, IT;
Giovanni Strano, Giarra, IT;
Salvatore Pisasale, Catania, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza (MB), IT;
Abstract
A method for managing a queue, such as for example a FIFO queue, and executing a look-ahead function on the data contained in the queue includes associating to the data in the queue respective state variables (C, C, . . . CK), the value of each of which represents the number of times a datum is present in the queue. The look-ahead function is then executed on the respective state variables, preferentially using a number of state variables (C, C, . . . CK) equal to the number of different values that may be assumed by the data in the queue. The look-ahead function can involve identification of the presence of a given datum in the queue and is, in that case, executed by verifying whether among the state variables (C, C, . . . CK) there exists a corresponding state variable with non-nil value.