Patents by Inventor Krishna M. Desai

Krishna M. Desai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for performing a memory-mode write to cache
    Patent number: 7167952
    Abstract: A method of writing to cache including initiating a write operation to a cache. In a first operational mode, the presence or absence of a write miss is detected and if a write miss is absent, writing data to the cache and if a write miss is present, retrieving the data from a further memory and writing the data to the cache based on least recently used logic. In a second operational mode, the cache is placed in a memory mode and the data is written to the cache based on an address regardless of whether a write miss is present or absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Krishna M. Desai, Anil S. Keste, Tin-chee Lo, Thomas D. Needham, Yuk-Ming Ng, Jeffrey M. Turner