US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Snoop filter with disaggregated vector table" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,890, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Snoop filter with disaggregated vector table" was invented by Jason Lawrence Panavich (Raleigh, N.C.) and 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 receiving a request from an agent for accessing a cogran and for allocating an agent ID to one of a plurality of SFT entries in a snoop filter (SFT), performing a tag lookup function for a tag of the cogran in the SFT to find a matched SFT entry, wherein the matched SFT entry is tracking the tag of the cogran, determinin...