US PATENT SUBCLASS 711 / 204
.~.~.~ Predicting, look-ahead

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711 /   HD   ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS: MEMORY

200  DF  ADDRESS FORMATION {12}
202  DF  .~ Address mapping (e.g., conversion, translation) {2}
203  DF  .~.~ Virtual addressing {3}
204.~.~.~ Predicting, look-ahead {1}
205  DF  .~.~.~.~> Directories and tables (e.g., DLAT, TLB)

DEFINITION

Classification: 711/204

Predicting, look-ahead:

(under subclass 203) Subject matter wherein means or steps are utilized for optimizing address determination by, for example, anticipating a next address or prefetching addresses.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

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

205+, for instruction fetching, subclass 207 for profetching of instructions and 233+ for branch prediction.