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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:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Glenn D. Gilda, Binghamton, NY (US);

Mark R. Hodges, Endicott, NY (US);

Vesselina K. Papazova, Highland, NY (US);

Eric E. Retter, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 13/1689 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to tagging in a MCU. An aspect includes assigning a command tag to a command by a tag allocation logic of the MCU. Another aspect includes sending the command and the command tag on a plurality of channels that are in communication with the MCU. Another aspect includes receiving a response tag comprising one of a data tag and a done tag corresponding to the command tag from each of the plurality of channels. Another aspect includes, based on receiving a data tag from each of the plurality of channels, determining that read data corresponding to the command is available.


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