US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 17 for "Input/output (I/O) store protocol for pipelining coherent operations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,783, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Input/output (I/O) store protocol for pipelining coherent operations" was invented by Ekaterina M. Ambroladze (Somers, N.Y.), Matthias Klein (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Sascha Junghans (Ammerbuch, Germany) and Kevin Lopes (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes a system fabric coupling a coherence manager and an input/output (I/O) requestor. The I/O requestor issues a first snoop request of a first I/O store operation and a subsequent second snoop request of a second I/O store operation. Each of the first ...