G06F 5/12
Means for monitoring the fill level
Official title: Means for monitoring the fill level; Means for resolving contention, i.e. conflicts between simultaneous enqueue and dequeue operations
G06F5/12 (Means for monitoring the fill level) appears on 532 US grants and 344 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Incoherent clocking method14 Apr 2026US 12,603,751 B2National Research Council of Canada
- Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and related device23 Sep 2025US 12,423,031 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Communication chip and data processing method12 Aug 2025US 12,386,588 B2Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd.
- Data stored or free space based FIFO buffer8 Apr 2025US 12,271,319 B2Intel Corporation
- Method for generating information based on FIFO memory and apparatus, device and medium11 Feb 2025US 12,222,876 B2Inspur Suzhou Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
- Network device for packet switching in accordance with a bounded end-to-end delay, and method of operating the same12 Mar 2026US 2026/0075009 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Methods, systems, and computer readable media for using a data buffer for storing acquisition data19 Jun 2025US 2025/0199948 A1Keysight Technologies, Inc.
- Unsuccessful write retry buffer15 Aug 2024US 2024/0273038 A1Rambus Inc.
- Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and related device20 Jun 2024US 2024/0201907 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- An incoherent clocking method23 May 2024US 2024/0171369 A1National Research Council of Canada
Most cited
By later US patents
- Video display control system having improved storage of alphanumeric and graphic display data142US 4,814,756 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1989
- Apparatus and method for resolving dependencies among a plurality of instructions within a storage device115US 5,345,569 AAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 1994
- System for efficiently transferring data between a high speed channel and a low speed I/O device114US 4,860,193 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1989
- FIFO with almost full/almost empty flag98US 4,891,788 A1990
- Predictive status flag generation in a first-in first-out (FIFO) memory device method and apparatus97US 5,506,809 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996