US Patent 7620694 Early issue of transaction ID

Patent 7620694 was granted and assigned to Intel on November, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Intel

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7620694

Date of Patent

November 17, 2009

Patent Application Number

11237285

Date Filed

September 27, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

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Gary J Portka

Patent abstract

Early issue of transaction ID is disclosed. An apparatus comprising decoder to generate a first node ID indicative of the destination of a cache transaction from a caching agent, a transaction ID allocation logic coupled to and operating in parallel to the decoder to select a transaction ID (TID) for the transaction based on the first node ID, a packet creation unit to create a packet that includes the transaction, the first node ID, the TID and a second node ID corresponding to the requestor.