US PATENT SUBCLASS 712 / 217
.~ Scoreboarding, reservation station, or aliasing

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712 /   HD   ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS: PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES AND INSTURCTION PROCESSING (E.G., PROCESSORS)

216  DF  DYNAMIC INSTRUCTION DEPENDENCY CHECKING, MONITORING OR CONFLICT RESOLUTION {3}
217.~ Scoreboarding, reservation station, or aliasing

DEFINITION

Classification: 712/217

Scoreboarding, reservation station, or aliasing:

(under subclass 216) Subject matter utilizing scoreboarding, reservation stations, aliasing (i.e., renaming), or combinations thereof for dependency checking and resolution.

(1) Note. This subclass is for use of a hardware-based scoreboard, reservation station, or alias table for determining or resolving instruction data dependencies. File maintenance (e.g., renaming) is classified elsewhere. Task management, per se, is classified elsewhere.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

709, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Multiple Computer or Process Coordinating,

1+, for task management per se.

707, Data Processing: Database and File Management, Data Structures, or Document Processing,

200+, for file renaming or file maintenance.