Patent ID: 8064567

Claim:
Method for the incrementation of counter statuses in memory cells, which are arranged in rows and columns of a first memory, comprising: adding a constant m to the memory content of a memory cell of a second memory, which corresponds to the memory cell at a beginning of a sequence of memory cells to be incremented within a row or column of the first memory, with every incrementation of a sequence of memory cells of the first memory; adding a constant −m to the memory content of a memory cell of the second memory, which corresponds to the memory cell immediately following the memory cell at the end of the sequence of memory cells to be incremented associated with the beginning of the sequence, with every incrementation of a sequence of memory cells of the first memory; finally recursively adding the memory content of a memory cell arranged within a row or column of the second memory to the memory content of the memory cell arranged in the next lower row or column of the first memory and storing the result of the addition in the memory cell arranged in the row or column of the first memory.