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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:
Jun. 20, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 07, 2015
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventor:

Seungjin Yang, Seongnam-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/0895 (2016.01); G06F 12/0886 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0895 (2013.01); G06F 12/0886 (2013.01); G06F 2212/401 (2013.01); G06F 2212/608 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device with a cache memory and a method of operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a cache memory including a plurality of cache lines each of which includes a first area with at least one storage space and a second area with at least one storage space, where the at least one storage space of the first area has a first size and the at least one storage space of the second area has a second size different from the first size, and a cache controller for storing the data requested for storage in one of the storage spaces of the first or second area, according to a compression factor associated with the data requested for storage when a request is made to store data in the cache memory.


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