Patent ID: 7779206

Claim:
A non-transitory information carrier medium containing software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to: receive information from circuit logic that is adapted to collect the information from caches on respectively different cache levels; apply filter processing to first portions of the collected information to determine whether some of said caches each contain information associated with a common address that is associated with a storage location in a memory other than said caches; and in response to a determination that some of said caches each contain information associated with said common address, and further in response to an input from a user of the software, provide the user with said information contained in one of said some caches and associated with said common address, while withholding from the user said information contained in another of said some caches and associated with said common address; wherein both said provided information and said withheld information constitute additional information other than said first portions of information, and wherein, without said user input, the software causes the processor to provide the user with said withheld information.