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EP0817070
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| EP0817070 - Multiprocessing system employing a coherency protocol including a reply count [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 09.04.2004 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 13.02.2008 [2008/07] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, California 95054 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2003/17] | For all designated states Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, California 95054 / US | ||
| Former [1998/02] | For all designated states SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 2550 Garcia Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hagersten, Erik E. 3451 Cork Oak Way Palo Alto, California 94303 / US | 02 /
Loewenstein, Paul N. 919 Channing Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 / US | [1998/02] | Representative(s) | Harris, Ian Richard D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/02] | Harris, Ian Richard D. Young & Co., 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB | Application number, filing date | 97304600.6 | 27.06.1997 | [1998/02] | Priority number, date | US19960674314 | 01.07.1996 Original published format: US 674314 | [1998/02] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0817070 | Date: | 07.01.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/02] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0817070 | Date: | 04.06.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/23] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.10.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G06F12/08 | [1998/02] | CPC: |
G06F12/0817 (EP,US);
G06F12/0813 (EP,US);
G06F2212/2542 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL, SE [1998/38] |
| Former [1998/02] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Mehrrechnersystem mit einem die Anzahl der Antworten enthaltenden Kohärenzprotokoll | [1998/02] | English: | Multiprocessing system employing a coherency protocol including a reply count | [1998/02] | French: | Système multi-processeur utilisant un protocole de cohérence avec compte de réponses | [1998/02] | Examination procedure | 13.05.1998 | Examination requested [1998/28] | 14.07.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 18.01.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.02.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 24.08.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.12.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 27.02.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 27.02.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.03.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/22] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 14.06.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 15.06.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 01.06.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 25.06.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 04.06.2003 | NL | 04.06.2003 | SE | 04.09.2003 | [2008/07] |
| Former [2004/10] | NL | 04.06.2003 | |
| SE | 04.09.2003 | ||
| Former [2004/02] | NL | 04.06.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0539012 (KENDALL SQUARE RESEARCH CORP [US]) [A] 1,6,10,15-17,21,22 * figure 2 * * page 8, line 20 - page 9, line 7 * * page 5, line 50 - page 7, line 7 * * page 5, line 30 - line 35 * * abstract *; | [A] - AGARWALA A ET AL., "EXPERIMENTING WITH A SHARED VIRTUAL MEMORY ENVIRONMENT FOR HYPERCUBES", JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING., NEW YORK US, (199509), vol. 29, no. 2, pages 228 - 235, XP000527349 [A] 1-3,6,10-12,15-17,20-22 * page 229, column R, line 42 - page 231, column R, line 16 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jpdc.1995.1120 | [A] - KUSKIN J ET AL, "THE STANFORD FLASH MULTIPROCESSOR", COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE NEWS, (19940401), vol. 22, no. 2, pages 302 - 313, XP000450360 [A] 1,6,10-13,15-17,20-22 * page 304, column R, line 37 - page 305, column R, line 16 * * page 303, column L, line 22 - line 32 * * abstract * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/192007.192056 | [A] - "SEMI-DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED DATA MANAGING TABLE FOR DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, (19940501), vol. 37, no. 5, pages 281 - 283, XP000453161 [A] 1,6,10,17 * the whole document * | Examination | EP0801349 |