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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:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sailesh Kottapalli, San Jose, CA (US);
Henk G. Neefs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rahul Pal, Bangalore, IN;
Manoj K. Arora, Bangalore, IN;
Dheemanth Nagaraj, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0831 (2013.01); G06F 12/0822 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a read request from a first caching agent, determining whether a directory entry associated with the memory location indicates that the information is not present in a remote caching agent, and if so, transmitting the information from the memory location to the first caching agent before snoop processing with respect to the read request is completed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.