Patents by Inventor David Anthony Fontaine

David Anthony Fontaine has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Techniques for using contextual information
    Patent number: 12243118
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to indicate contextual information to be used by available logical processors. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to indicate a first set of contextual information to be used by a first subset of available processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Maciej Marcin Piechotka, Kyrylo Perelygin, Lukasz Krystian Ligowski, Ashutosh Jain, Jitendra Pratap Singh Chauhan, Jaydeep Marathe, Magnus Strengert, Xiaonan Tian, Sebastian Piotr Jodlowski, John Clifton Woolley, Jr.
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE EVENT WAIT DEPENDENCIES
    Publication number: 20250021407
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform an application programming interface (API) to add one or more graph nodes to a software graph, wherein the API is to cause an event wait node to be added to a software graph based, at least in part, on a dependency type indicated by the API. In at least one embodiment, one or more nodes are added to a graph in accordance to one or more dependency types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO MODIFY INCOMPLETE GRAPH CODE
    Publication number: 20240385905
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to modify one or more portions of incomplete graph code. In at least one embodiment, one or more portions of incomplete graph code are modified based on, for example, CUDA or other parallel computing platform code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventor: David Anthony Fontaine
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO LOCATE INCOMPLETE GRAPH CODE
    Publication number: 20240362086
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify a location of one or more portions of incomplete graph code. In at least one embodiment, a location of one or more portions of incomplete graph code is identified based on, for example, CUDA or other parallel computing platform code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: David Anthony Fontaine
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO MODIFY INCOMPLETE GRAPH CODE
    Publication number: 20240362088
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to modify one or more portions of incomplete graph code. In at least one embodiment, one or more portions of incomplete graph code are modified based on, for example, CUDA or other parallel computing platform code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: David Anthony Fontaine
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CAUSE GRAPH CODE TO WAIT ON A SEMAPHORE
    Publication number: 20240354173
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate graph code synchronization between application programming interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause graph code to wait on a semaphore used by another API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CAUSE GRAPH CODE TO UPDATE A SEMAPHORE
    Publication number: 20240345900
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate graph code synchronization between application programming interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause graph code to update a semaphore used by another API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CAUSE GRAPH CODE TO UPDATE A SEMAPHORE
    Publication number: 20240338257
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate graph code synchronization between application programming interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause graph code to update a semaphore used by another API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CAUSE GRAPH CODE TO WAIT ON A SEMAPHORE
    Publication number: 20240338258
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate graph code synchronization between application programming interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause graph code to wait on a semaphore used by another API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO LOCATE INCOMPLETE GRAPH CODE
    Publication number: 20240338261
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify a location of one or more portions of incomplete graph code. In at least one embodiment, a location of one or more portions of incomplete graph code is identified based on, for example, CUDA or other parallel computing platform code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventor: David Anthony Fontaine
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE EVENT DEPENDENCIES
    Publication number: 20240289187
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform an application programming interface (API) to add one or more graph nodes to a software graph, wherein the API is to store an indication of whether a node within a software graph was performed based, at least in part, on a dependency type indicated by the API. In at least one embodiment, one or more nodes are added to a graph in accordance to one or more dependency types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel
  • LAUNCHING GRAPHS USING GPU(s)
    Publication number: 20240152413
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques that allow a parallel processing unit to launch at least one graph including one or more operations and to perform the operation(s). In at least one embodiment, a graphics processing unit launches a graph that is uploaded from a central processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Sally Tessa Stevenson, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones, David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Houston Thompson Hoffman
  • TECHNIQUES TO SELECTIVELY STORE DATA
    Publication number: 20230305845
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to cause data to be selectively stored in one or more memory locations. In at least one embodiment, a processor is to cause data to be selectively stored in one or more memory locations based, at least in part, on one or more threads to use the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Harold Carter Edwards, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones, David Anthony Fontaine, Sebastian Piotr Jodlowski, Aditya Avinash Atluri, Andrew Robert Kerr, Michael Andrew Clark, Gonzalo Brito Gadeschi, Olivier Giroux, Jaydeep Marathe, Thibaut Lutz, Hariharan Sandanagobalane, Gokul Ramaswamy Hirisave Chandra Shekhara, Girish Bhaskarrao Bharambe, Rishkul Kulkarni, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CAUSE GRAPH CODE TO WAIT ON A SEMAPHORE
    Publication number: 20230244549
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate graph code synchronization between application programming interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause graph code to wait on a semaphore used by another API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • TECHNIQUES FOR USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20230222619
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to indicate contextual information to be used by available logical processors. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to indicate a first set of contextual information to be used by a first subset of available processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Maciej Marcin Piechotka, Kyrylo Perelygin, Lukasz Krystian Ligowski, Ashutosh Jain, Jitendra Pratap Singh Chauhan, Jaydeep Marathe, Magnus Strengert, Xiaonan Tian, Sebastian Piotr Jodlowski, John Clifton Woolley, JR.
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CONTROL EXECUTION OF GRAPH NODES
    Publication number: 20230222019
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate execution graph control. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface comprising one or more parameters is used to control which of one or more portions of graph code are to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones, Jason David Gaiser, David Anthony Fontaine, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE EXECUTION OF GRAPH NODES
    Publication number: 20230222010
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate execution graph control. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface comprising one or more parameters is used to indicate which of one or more portions of graph code are to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones, Jason David Gaiser, David Anthony Fontaine, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO CAUSE GRAPH CODE TO UPDATE A SEMAPHORE
    Publication number: 20230185634
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate graph code synchronization between application programming interfaces. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause graph code to update a semaphore used by another API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Sally Tessa Stevenson, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • TECHNIQUES FOR MODIFYING GRAPH CODE
    Publication number: 20230176933
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to modify graph code. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to modify executable graph code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Sally Tessa Stevenson, Jason David Gaiser, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, David Anthony Fontaine, Vladislav Zhurba, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO SET UP GRAPH RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20230093254
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to instantiate execution graph resources. In at least one embodiment, one or more computational resources of a parallel processing unit (PPU) to be used by one or more execution graphs are initialized prior to performance of said one or more execution graphs by said PPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: David Anthony Fontaine, Steven Arthur Gurfinkel, Vladislav Zhurba