US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 25 for "Processor-based system for allocating cache lines to a higher-level cache memory" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,820, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processor-based system for allocating cache lines to a higher-level cache memory" was invented by Ramkumar Srinivasan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-based system for allocating a higher-level cache line in a higher-level cache memory in response to an eviction request of a lower-level cache line is disclosed. The processor-based system determines whether the cache line is opportunistic, sets an opportunistic indicator to indicate that the lower-level cache line is opportunistic, and communicates the lower-level cache line and the oppor...