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Current Assignee
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Patent Inventor Names
Robert N. Cooksey0
Stephan J. Jourdan0
Date of Patent
August 21, 2007
0Patent Application Number
101643450
Date Filed
June 5, 2002
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A content prefetcher having a prefetch chain reinforcement mechanism. In response to a prefetch hit at a cache line within a prefetch chain, a request depth of the hit cache line is promoted and the hit cache line is scanned for candidate virtual addresses in order to reinforce the prefetch chain.
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