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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:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2012
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Keshavan Tiruvallur, Tigard, OR (US);
Rajesh Parthasarathy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
James B. Crossland, Banks, OR (US);
Shivnandan Kaushik, Portland, OR (US);
Luke Hood, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 13/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 13/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique to enable efficient interrupt communication within a computer system. In one embodiment, an advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC) is interfaced via a set of bits within an APIC interface register using various interface instructions or operations, without using memory-mapped input/output (MMIO).