Abstract: A method includes providing an input port and/or an output port directly interfaced with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of a data processing device further including a Central Processing Unit (CPU) to enable a corresponding reception of input data and/or rendering of output data therethrough. The method also includes implementing a voice/audio processing engine in the data processing device. Further, the method includes performing voice/audio related processing of the input data received through the input port and/or voice/audio related processing of data in the data processing device to realize the output data based on executing the voice/audio processing engine solely through the GPU.

Abstract: A method includes providing an Input/Output (I/O) interface at a periphery of a motherboard of a data processing device, and providing traces between a processor of the data processing device and the I/O interface across a surface of the motherboard. The traces provide conductive pathways between circuits of the processor and the I/O interface. The method also includes exposing the I/O interface through an external cosmetic surface of the data processing device in an assembled state thereof by way of a port complementary to that of a port of an external graphics card to enable direct coupling of the external graphics card to the data processing device through the exposed I/O interface by way of the complementary ports to provide boosting of processing through the data processing device.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes techniques for synchronizing displays of a plurality of mobile devices over a wireless network. A processing unit renders an image frame related to a software application into an application image buffer associated with a first mobile device and causes a second mobile device to render a second image frame into a second application image buffer of the second mobile device. The processing unit receives an acknowledgement over a wireless network indicating that the second mobile device has completed rendering the second image frame. The processing unit displays contents of the application image buffer on a first display device associated with the first mobile device and transmits a signal to the second mobile device over a wireless network that causes the second mobile device to display contents of the second application image buffer on a second display device associated with the second mobile device.

Abstract: A method includes providing an input port and/or an output port directly interfaced with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of a data processing device further including a Central Processing Unit (CPU) to enable a corresponding reception of input data and/or rendering of output data therethrough. The method also includes implementing a voice/audio processing engine in the data processing device. Further, the method includes performing voice/audio related processing of the input data received through the input port and/or voice/audio related processing of data in the data processing device to realize the output data based on executing the voice/audio processing engine solely through the GPU.

Abstract: A method includes providing an Input/Output (I/O) interface at a periphery of a motherboard of a data processing device, and providing traces between a processor of the data processing device and the I/O interface across a surface of the motherboard. The traces provide conductive pathways between circuits of the processor and the I/O interface. The method also includes exposing the I/O interface through an external cosmetic surface of the data processing device in an assembled state thereof by way of a port complementary to that of a port of an external graphics card to enable direct coupling of the external graphics card to the data processing device through the exposed I/O interface by way of the complementary ports to provide boosting of processing through the data processing device.

Abstract: A method includes providing a non-motherboard level Input/Output (I/O) interface in a data processing device including a processor communicatively coupled to a memory, and providing a driver component of an external processor in the memory of the data processing device and/or a memory associated with the external processor. The method also includes installing the driver component in the data processing device to render the data processing device compatible with the external processor, and coupling the external processor to the data processing device through the non-motherboard level I/O interface to provide boosting of processing through the data processing device, thereby dispensing with a need to make a motherboard level modification in the data processing device therefore.