US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Cache coherence using dynamic coarse-grained tracking" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,903, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cache coherence using dynamic coarse-grained tracking" was invented by Dimitrios Kaseridis (Austin, Texas) and Mukund Ramakrishna (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides a method including receiving a request for allocating an incoming cacheline to one of a plurality of SFT entries in a snoop filter (SFT), performing a tag lookup function for a tag of the incoming cacheline in the SFT, in response to determining that the incoming cacheline is not part of an existing sector of any of the plurality of SF...