ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,075, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Memory request priority up-leveling" was invented by Nagaraj Ashok Putti (Bangalore, India), Gopi Neela (Bengaluru, India), Shubham Mahajan (Bangalore, India) and Praxal Sunilkumar Shah (Ahmedabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described techniques and apparatuses enable memory-request priority up-leveling. A memory request is received over a virtual channel, VC, and is then added to a memory-request buffer with an original priority-level for the memory request and an indication that the memory request is associated with a virtual channel identifi...