MARKETING PROMOTION PUBLIC

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ENERGY ADVISOR	MidAmerican Energy Company	666 Grand Avenue, Ste. 500 666 Grand Avenue, Suite 500 Des Moines IA 50309	MARKETING AND PROMOTION OF PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICES;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A multiprocessor data processing system includes a plurality of processors coupled to an interconnect and to a global promotion facility containing at least one promotion bit field. A first processor executes a high speed instruction sequence including a load-type instruction to acquire a promotion bit field within the global promotion facility exclusive of at least a second processor. The request may be made visible to all processors coupled to the interconnect. In response to execution of the load-type instruction, a register of the first processor receives a register bit field indicating whether or not the promotion bit field was acquired by execution of the load-type instruction. While the first processor holds the promotion bit field exclusive of the second processor, the second processor is permitted to initiate a request on the interconnect. Advantageously, promotion bit fields are handled separately from data, and the communication of promotion bit fields does not entail the movement of data cache lines.