Patent ID: 8736625

Claim:
A computer implemented method for processing graphics data, the method comprising: generating a notification command for a first graphics command and a second graphics command, the first graphics command for rendering first graphics data and the second graphics command for rendering second graphics data, the first and second graphics data representing at least a portion of a graphics frame; in response to the first and second graphics commands, executing the first graphics command via a first graphics processing unit (GPU) to render the first graphics data, and executing the second graphics command via a second GPU to render the second graphics data substantially concurrently, the notification command including identifiers which will be used to indicate completion of the execution of the first graphics command and the second graphics command; and notifying a display driver with the notification command with the identifiers before the completion of the execution of the first graphics command and the second graphics command to update a display with the graphics frame when the first GPU and the second GPU have completed rendering the first and second graphics data respectively.