ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,049, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Device, system and method for providing a high affinity snoop filter" was invented by Leon Polishuk (Haifa, Israel), Oz Shitrit (Tel Aviv, Israel), Elyada Bar-Chaim (Haifa, Israel), Mauricio Valverde Monge (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ayan Mandal (Bangaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for efficiently providing access to cached data. In an embodiment, a cache coherency engine comprises circuitry to provide a snoop filter which stores entries each corresponding to a respective line of one or more caches. The one or more caches compr...