ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,718, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Concurrent fill and byte merge" was invented by Scot Rider (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for concurrently performing a fill and byte merge operation in a data processing system are described. An example technique includes receiving a memory access request from a user interface. A determination is made that the memory access request has encountered a cache miss within a cache directory in the computing system. In response to the determination, a fetch request is transmitted to an upper level cac...