Patent ID: 11868271
Assignee: ZEROPOINT TECHNOLOGIES AB
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The device for accessing compressed computer memory as defined in claim 2, the selector unit comprising:
a prefetch buffer configured for buffering all or some of the decompressed sector data resulting from said physical memory access request being a first read request,
wherein the selector unit is configured, for a subsequent physical memory access request being a second read request, to:
use an address and a size of said second read request to check if the requested data exists in the prefetch buffer, and, if so:
retrieve the requested data from the prefetch buffer and return it to a source of said second read request, or, otherwise:
retrieve and return the requested data for the second read request as defined for said physical memory access request being said read request.