US PATENT SUBCLASS 711 / 128
.~.~.~ Associative

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711 /   HD   ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS: MEMORY

100  DF  STORAGE ACCESSING AND CONTROL {6}
117  DF  .~ Hierarchical memories {1}
118  DF  .~.~ Caching {14}
128.~.~.~ Associative

DEFINITION

Classification: 711/128

Associative:

(under subclass 118) Subject matter further comprising organizing a cache system where any block in main memory can be mapped to any block in the cache (fully associative) or where the cache is divided into sets of blocks and individual blocks of main memory are mapped to any of the blocks of a particular corresponding set (that is, for example, set associative).

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

365, Static Information Storage and Retrieval,

49+, for associative memories or content addressable memories (CAM), per se.