US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Dynamic extension and de-allocation of cache coherence snoop filter entry" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,777, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic extension and de-allocation 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 selecting a physical SFT entry to be victimized, the physical SFT entry being one of a base SFT entry and an extra SFT entry of a logical SFT entry in a snoop filter (SFT) and consolidating the base SFT entry and the extra SFT entry into one physical entry."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/340,359.

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