METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING COHERENCE INFORMATION IN MULTI-CACHE SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 7,370,154

Granted

2008-05-06

Filed 2004

Owner

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10785575

A method and apparatus for maintaining coherence information in multi-cache systems is described herein. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an Ingrained Sharing Directory Cache (ISDC) to store state information about recent copies of local memory blocks. The ISDC is adapted to receive Ingrained Sharing Directory Storage (ISDS) requests and create ISDC entries from information presented by the ISDS. The apparatus also includes an ISDC pending queue to store pending ISDC operations.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Planning0.02
Natural language0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

assignment · 150390026

Assignors

KACZYNSKI, TOMASZ

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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