Patents by Inventor Thomas H. Klein

Thomas H. Klein 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).

  • System, method, and computer program product for debugging graphics programs locally utilizing a system with a single GPU
    Patent number: 9292414
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for debugging graphics programs via a system with a single graphics processing unit. The method includes the steps of storing an initial state of an application programming interface context in a memory, intercepting a stream of API commands associated with the frame, transmitting the stream of API commands to a software layer that implements the API to render the frame, and in response to a breakpoint, storing a graphics processing unit context in the memory. The initial state of the API context corresponds to the start of a frame, and the stream of API commands are generated by a graphics application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Kiel, Thomas H. Klein
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DEBUGGING GRAPHICS PROGRAMS LOCALLY UTILIZING A SYSTEM WITH A SINGLE GPU
    Publication number: 20140146062
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for debugging graphics programs via a system with a single graphics processing unit. The method includes the steps of storing an initial state of an application programming interface context in a memory, intercepting a stream of API commands associated with the frame, transmitting the stream of API commands to a software layer that implements the API to render the frame, and in response to a breakpoint, storing a graphics processing unit context in the memory. The initial state of the API context corresponds to the start of a frame, and the stream of API commands are generated by a graphics application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Kiel, Thomas H. Klein