Patents by Inventor JOHN A. TSAKOK

JOHN A. TSAKOK 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).

  • Sampling, fault management, and/or context switching via a compute pipeline
    Patent number: 9449363
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods may sample a texture, manage a page fault, and/or switch a context associated with the page fault. A three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline may provide texture sample location data corresponding to a texture, wherein sampling of the texture is to be executed external to the 3D graphics pipeline. A compute pipeline may execute sampling of the texture utilizing the texture sample location data and provide texture sample result data corresponding to the texture, wherein the 3D graphics pipeline may composite a frame utilizing the texture sample result data. The compute pipeline may manage a page fault, wherein the page fault and/or management of the page fault may be hidden from a graphics application. In addition, the compute pipeline may switch a compute context associated with the page fault to allow a graphics task not associated with the page fault to be executed and/or to prevent a stall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Tsakok, Brandon L. Fliflet, Jayanth N. Rao
  • SAMPLING, FAULT MANAGEMENT, AND/OR CONTEXT SWITCHING VIA A COMPUTE PIPELINE
    Publication number: 20150379730
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods may sample a texture, manage a page fault, and/or switch a context associated with the page fault. A three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline may provide texture sample location data corresponding to a texture, wherein sampling of the texture is to be executed external to the 3D graphics pipeline. A compute pipeline may execute sampling of the texture utilizing the texture sample location data and provide texture sample result data corresponding to the texture, wherein the 3D graphics pipeline may composite a frame utilizing the texture sample result data. The compute pipeline may manage a page fault, wherein the page fault and/or management of the page fault may be hidden from a graphics application. In addition, the compute pipeline may switch a compute context associated with the page fault to allow a graphics task not associated with the page fault to be executed and/or to prevent a stall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: JOHN A. TSAKOK, BRANDON L. FLIFLET, JAYANTH N. RAO