US Patent 7469316 Buffered writes and memory page control

Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to issue transactions to a memory. In some embodiments, a memory controller may select pending transactions based upon selection criteria and may issue the selected transactions to memory. Further, the memory controller may close a page of the memory accessed by a write transaction in response to determining that the write transaction is the last write transaction of a series of one or more write transactions.