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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:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Inventor:
David Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD., , BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with improving communication latencies by using a hardware linked list are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a pointer memory configured to store a free list that includes a plurality of pointers that each point to an address in a memory that is unallocated. The apparatus includes a memory controller configured to manage a linked list using pointers from the plurality of pointers stored in the free list. The apparatus includes a list memory configured to store the linked list.