Patent ID: 11861408
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium on which computer-readable instructions of a program are stored, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
opening, via a communication interface, a communication channel between the one or more processors and a hardware (HW) accelerator card, wherein opening the communication channel includes:
requesting a handle to the HW accelerator card, and
receiving the handle to the HW accelerator card;

requesting, via a communication interface and using the received handle, a listing of acceleration services from the HW accelerator card; and
receiving, via the communication interface, the listing of acceleration services from the HW accelerator card, wherein the listing of acceleration services is stored within the HW accelerator card.