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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:
Sep. 20, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2014
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mikal C. Hunsaker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Michael T. Klinglesmith, Portland, OR (US);

Blaise Fanning, Folsom, CA (US);

Rohit R. Verma, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/0772 (2013.01); G06F 11/0784 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 13/4221 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for handling a request received in an agent designed in accordance with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) specification using PCI Express™ semantics. More specifically, responsive to determining that the agent does not support the request, an unsupported request detection register of the agent can be updated, and a response sent from the agent to indicate that the agent does not support the request. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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