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Let me mention in passing the following patent application which is 
publicly visible:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=glew.IN.&OS=IN/glew&RS=IN/glew

20110078389

MANAGING AND IMPLEMENTING METADATA IN CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT USING 
REGISTER EXTENSIONS

A set of default registers of a processor are expanded into metadata 
registers on the processor of a computer system. The default registers 
having stored thereon data, while metadata which is related to the data 
is stored separately on the metadata registers.

Inventors:	Patel; Baiju V.; (Portland, OR) ; Gopalakrishna; Rajeev; 
(Hillsboro, OR) ; Glew; Andrew F.; (Hillsboro, OR) ; Kushlis; Robert J.; 
(Worcester, MA) ; Van Dyke; Don Alan; (Rescue, CA) ; Cihula; Joseph 
Frank; (Hillsboro, OR) ; Mallick; Asit K.; (Saratoga, CA) ; Crossland; 
James B.; (Banks, OR) ; Neiger; Gilbert; (Portland, OR) ; Rodgers; Scott 
Dion; (Hillsboro, OR) ; Dixon; Martin Guy; (Portland, OR) ; Charney; 
Mark Jay; (Lexington, MA) ; Gottlieb; Jocob; (Kiryat Tivon, IL)
Serial No.:	571269
Series Code:	12
Filed:	September 30, 2009