Patents by Inventor Paul Lalonde

Paul Lalonde 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).

  • Publication number: 20240001230
    Abstract: Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Jean-François Roy, Paul Leventis
  • Publication number: 20230377251
    Abstract: In order to perform denoising on a three-dimensional (3D) spherical measurement of light (such as spherical irradiance probe information or the results of a 3D gonioreflectometry capture), the 3D spherical measurement of light is converted to a two-dimensional (2D) measurement by creating multiple copies of the 3D spherical measurement of light, determining a two-dimensional sub-domain (e.g., a rectangular sub-domain) for each of the multiple copies, and stitching the plurality of two-dimensional sub-domains together in a toroidal configuration. Denoising may then be performed on this 2D measurement via a machine learning implementation or other means. This may result in more accurate 3D spherical light probes that require fewer light measurement samples to generate accurate light measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Vining, Paul Lalonde, Alexander Majercik
  • Patent number: 11813521
    Abstract: Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis, Jean-François Roy
  • Publication number: 20230330533
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Clinton Smullen, Dov Zimring, Jani Huoponen, Aki Kuusela, Jean-Francois Roy, Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis
  • Patent number: 11701587
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Smullen, Dov Zimring, Jani Huoponen, Aki Kuusela, Jean-Francois Roy, Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis
  • Patent number: 11369873
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Smullen, Dov Zimring, Jani Huoponen, Aki Kuusela, Jean-Francois Roy, Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis
  • Publication number: 20220134227
    Abstract: Methods and systems for rendering distinct components of a combined user interface (UI) are described herein. A processing device receives a user request for a media item to be presented via a combined UI including one or more video content components and one or more UI control components. The processing device generates a rendering of the video content components and transmits a first stream including the rendering of the video content components to an endpoint device, wherein the first stream is encoded to a first resolution and wherein the rendering of the video content components is to be merged with a rendering of the UI control components into the combined UI at the endpoint device, the combined UI having a second resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas Vining, Paul LaLonde
  • Publication number: 20220054940
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Clinton Smullen, Dov Zimring, Jani Huoponen, Aki Kuusela, Jean-Francois Roy, Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis
  • Patent number: 11198065
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Smullen, Dov Zimring, Jani Huoponen, Aki Kuusela, Jean-Francois Roy, Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis
  • Patent number: 11110348
    Abstract: Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis, Jean-Francois Roy
  • Publication number: 20210213354
    Abstract: Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis, Jean-François Roy
  • Publication number: 20200238175
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Clinton Smullen, Dov Zimring, Jani Huoponen, Aki Kuusela, Jean-Francois Roy, Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis
  • Publication number: 20190308099
    Abstract: Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis, Jean-Francois Roy
  • Patent number: 9313454
    Abstract: Methods and systems may involve determining a user attention level based on video stream data associated with a first participant in an always-on video conferencing session. The video stream data may be modified based on the user attention level to obtain modified video stream data that is automatically adjusted for privacy. In addition, the modified video stream data may be transmitted to one or more other participants in the video conferencing session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Douglas Carmean
  • Patent number: 9024959
    Abstract: A method and system may include a chip having graphics rendering hardware, a cache and a processor to execute an application with texture allocation logic to receive notification of a page miss from the graphics rendering hardware. The logic can map the page miss to a tile of a texture image, store the tile as an entry to the cache, and map the entry to a virtual address space of a virtual image corresponding to the texture image. The system may also include off-chip memory to store the texture image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Duprat, Paul Lalonde, Andrew T Forsyth
  • Publication number: 20140368604
    Abstract: Methods and systems may involve determining a user attention level based on video stream data associated with a first participant in an always-on video conferencing session. The video stream data may be modified based on the user attention level to obtain modified video stream data that is automatically adjusted for privacy. In addition, the modified video stream data may be transmitted to one or more other participants in the video conferencing session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Douglas Carmean
  • Patent number: 8773448
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are described for list texturing being performed over a data path of a graphics pipeline. Input data is received at a graphics pipeline of a graphics processing unit to be processed and generated into a final image to be displayed on a display device of a computer system. Geographic primitives are obtained from processing the input data, and neighbor aggregation of pixels within the geographic primitives is performed. The neighbor aggregation of the pixels includes rendering list texture of the pixels by merging the geographic primitives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul LaLonde, Kiril Vidimce, Larry Dean Seiler
  • Patent number: 8359812
    Abstract: A grid tee and method of making the same comprising an elongated sheet metal strip folded on itself to integrally form a lower double wall flange, a hollow upper reinforcing bulb, and a web extending upwardly between the flange and bulb, the flange generally lying in a horizontal plane, having opposed spaced parallel edges extending longitudinally, and being perpendicular to the web, the web lying in a generally vertical plane, the strip having two longitudinal extending marginal edge zones, said marginal edge zones being generally vertically disposed and fixed at least at longitudinally spaced locations to a central area of the strip that forms a portion of the web and forming a double web layer area, the marginal edge zones of the strip being vertically spaced from one another such that a portion of the central area of the strip that forms a part of the web is a single exclusive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: USG Interiors, LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad M. Raheel, James J. Lehane, Jr., Paul LaLonde
  • Publication number: 20110249011
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are described for list texturing being performed over a data path of a graphics pipeline. Input data is received at a graphics pipeline of a graphics processing unit to be processed and generated into a final image to be displayed on a display device of a computer system. Geographic primitives are obtained from processing the input data, and neighbor aggregation of pixels within the geographic primitives is performed. The neighbor aggregation of the pixels includes rendering list texture of the pixels by merging the geographic primitives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: PAUL LALONDE, Kiril Vidimce, Larry Dean Seiler
  • Publication number: 20110148894
    Abstract: A method and system may include a chip having graphics rendering hardware, a cache and a processor to execute an application with texture allocation logic to receive notification of a page miss from the graphics rendering hardware. The logic can map the page miss to a tile of a texture image, store the tile as an entry to the cache, and map the entry to a virtual address space of a virtual image corresponding to the texture image. The system may also include off-chip memory to store the texture image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Duprat, Paul Lalonde, Andrew T. Forsyth