Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions
USRE38388E1 · kind E1 · reissue
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| Filing date | Jun 14, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jan 13, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 14, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the bus of the computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for permitting out-of-order replies in a pipelined bus system. The out-of-order responses include the sending of tokens between both the requesting agents and the responding agents in the computer system without the use of dedicated token buses.
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