US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Sept. 8 for "Bloom-based hit predictor" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,755, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bloom-based hit predictor" was invented by Patrick J. Shyvers (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and William L Walker (Ft. Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implementation is a method for operating a cache memory in a computing system, receiving a request for a first data item from the cache memory of the computing system, the first data item having an associated tag value. The method also includes performing a lookup in a bloom filter for the tag value associated with the first data item. The method also includes performing a lookup in the c...