US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "Recording a cache coherency protocol trace for use with a separate memory value trace" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,757, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Recording a cache coherency protocol trace for use with a separate memory value trace" was invented by Jordi Mola (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor that performs cache-based tracing based on recording one or more cache coherency protocol (CCP) messages into a first trace. Based on detecting a memory access to a target memory address, the processor logs into the first trace information usable to obtain a memory value corresponding to the particular memory address from the memory snapshot(s) stored within the second tr...