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Microsoft patents method to manage memory tracking in processors

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Microsoft describes a way to manage a list that helps computer chips keep track of data in their fast memory. The method combines two separate tracking entries into one to save space when the list gets full.

Why it mattersThis is a routine improvement to how processors handle internal data, which may help computers run slightly more efficiently.

In the filing’s own words

The described technology provides a method including selecting a physical SFT entry to be victimized, the physical SFT entry being one of a base SFT entry and an extra SFT entry of a logical SFT entry in a snoop filter (SFT) and CPU CPU GPU consolidating the base SFT entry and the extra SFT entry into one physical entry.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1 - 20. (canceled)

Facts

Company: Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title: DYNAMIC EXTENSION AND DE-ALLOCATION OF CACHE COHERENCE SNOOP FILTER ENTRY
Publication number: US20260329772A1
Application number: 19485925
Filed: Jun 21, 2024
Published: Oct 22, 2026
Inventors: 1
Claims: 21

Classified under

G06F 12/0831 Physics & computingG06F 12/0891 Physics & computing

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