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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2009
Pieter Van Der Wolf, Leende, NL;
Abraham Karel Riemens, Eersel, NL;
Jan-willem Van DE Waerdt, San Jose, CA (US);
Pieter Van Der Wolf, Leende, NL;
Abraham Karel Riemens, Eersel, NL;
Jan-Willem Van de Waerdt, San Jose, CA (US);
Entropic Communications, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A cache management policy is provided, comprising a method for writing back to a memory () a data element set () stored in a cache (). The method reduces the time some items stay in the cache, and thereby improves the utilization of the cache for some applications, especially for video applications. The method comprises determining that each one of the multiple data elements has been updated through at least one write request; marking the data element set as a write-back candidate, in dependency on said determination; and writing the write-back candidate to the memory.