ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,722, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).
"Differential matching prefetcher for coping with irregular memory access" was invented by Tian Xia (Xi'an, China), Gelin Fu (Xi'an, China), Zhongpei Luo (Xi'an, China), Wenzhe Zhao (Xi'an, China) and Pengju Ren (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential matching prefetcher for coping with irregular memory access includes: an access index table, an access target table, a differential matching module, an index queue, an indirect memory access candidate scoreboard, an address generator, an indirect memory access relationship table, a pref...