US PATENT SUBCLASS 711 / 137
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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}
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DEFINITION

Classification: 711/137

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(under subclass 118) Subject matter where selected data from main memory are retrieved into the cache prior to any request from the processor for the selected data.

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712, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Processing-Processing Architectures and Instruction Processing (e.g., Processors)

205, for fetching, 207 for prefetching, and 233+ for branch prediction.