US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 27 for "Dynamic snoop-filter allocation for large-scale memory coherent system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,103, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamic snoop-filter allocation for large-scale memory coherent system" was invented by Liran Fishel (Ra'Anana, Israel) and David Dayan (Kfar Vitkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology include techniques and mechanisms for dynamic snoop-filter allocation for large-scale memory coherent systems. A coherency manager on an interconnect manages a directory storing data that indicates a current state of each cache line stored within each caching agent on the interconnect and a number of caching agents that share a cache line...