Patents by Inventor Steven J. Tovey

Steven J. Tovey 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: 20230205584
    Abstract: A disclosed technique includes allocating a first set of resource slots for a first execution instance of a pipeline shader program; correlating the first set of resource slots with graphics pipeline passes; and on a second execution instance of the pipeline shader program, assigning resource slots, from the first set of resource slots, to the graphics pipeline passes, based on the correlating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicants: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Zhuo Chen, Steven J. Tovey
  • Patent number: 11481256
    Abstract: Techniques for scheduling operations for a task graph on a processing device are provided. The techniques include receiving a task graph that specifies one or more passes, one or more resources, and one or more directed edges between passes and resources; identifying independent passes and dependent passes of the task graph; based on performance criteria of the processing device, scheduling commands to execute the passes; and transmitting scheduled commands to the processing device for execution as scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Steven J. Tovey, Zhou Chen, David Ronald Oldcorn
  • Patent number: 11275586
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a task graph for workload scheduling based on a task graph specification program are provided. The techniques include executing control flow instructions of the task graph specification program to traverse the task graph specification program; generating pass nodes of the task graph based on pass instructions of the task graph specification program; generating resource nodes and directed edges based on resource declarations of the task graph specification program; and outputting the task graph specification program to a command scheduler for scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Steven J. Tovey, Zhuo Chen, David Ronald Oldcorn
  • Publication number: 20210373892
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a task graph for workload scheduling based on a task graph specification program are provided. The techniques include executing control flow instructions of the task graph specification program to traverse the task graph specification program; generating pass nodes of the task graph based on pass instructions of the task graph specification program; generating resource nodes and directed edges based on resource declarations of the task graph specification program; and outputting the task graph specification program to a command scheduler for scheduling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Steven J. Tovey, Zhuo Chen, David Ronald Oldcorn
  • Publication number: 20210373957
    Abstract: Techniques for scheduling operations for a task graph on a processing device are provided. The techniques include receiving a task graph that specifies one or more passes, one or more resources, and one or more directed edges between passes and resources; identifying independent passes and dependent passes of the task graph; based on performance criteria of the processing device, scheduling commands to execute the passes; and transmitting scheduled commands to the processing device for execution as scheduled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Steven J. Tovey, Zhuo Chen, David Ronald Oldcorn