US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 3 for "Real-time snoop status" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,416, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Real-time snoop status" was invented by Scot Rider (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.), Timothy Bronson (Round Rock, Texas), Clinton E. Bubb (Milton, N.Y.) and Craig R. Walters (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for performing real-time tracking and reporting of snoop activity within a data processing system are described. An example technique includes performing a local snoop operation for multiple processors within a cluster. A snoop tracing message with information associated with the local snoop operation is gener...