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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:
Nov. 29, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2012
Applicants:

Jun Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);

Joseph Jun Cao, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Sheng LU, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jun Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);

Joseph Jun Cao, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Sheng Lu, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Assignee:

Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/362 (2006.01); H03K 17/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/362 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01); G06F 13/14 (2013.01); H03K 17/62 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method determines a plurality of categories for requests for a shared resource being shared by a plurality of entities. A request for the resource is received from an entity in the plurality of entities. The method determines a category in the plurality of categories for the received request. If the received request is determined to be in a first category, the method dispatches the received request to a first arbitration scheme configured to determine an arbitration decision in a first time cycle. If the received request is determined to be in a second category, the method dispatches the received request to a second arbitration scheme configured to determine an arbitration decision in a second time cycle of a different length from the first time cycle.


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