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G06F 12/0893

Caches characterised by their organisation or structure

Full Title

Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures (digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06) > Addressing or allocation; Relocation (program address sequencing G06F9/00; arrangements for selecting an address in a digital store G11C8/00) > in hierarchically structured memory systems, e.g. virtual memory systems > Addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means, e.g. caches > Caches characterised by their organisation or structure

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Child Classifications

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  • G06F 12/0895 of parts of caches, e.g. directory or tag array
  • G06F 12/0897 with two or more cache hierarchy levels (with multilevel cache hierarchies G06F12/0811)

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
  4. GOOGLE US 35,735
  5. INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
  8. APPLE US 23,482
  9. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917