US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 26 for "Dynamic extension of cache coherence snoop filter entry" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,829, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic extension of cache coherence snoop filter entry" was invented by Eric Francis Robinson (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides a method including generating a base snoop filter (SFT) entry for a coherence granule (cogran) in agent cache, the base SFT entry comprising a tracking_information field configured to track a plurality of agent IDs, each agent ID identifying an agent that holds a copy of the cogran, determining a number of agents that hold the copy of the cogran, comparing the and numbe...