PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871864
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["711", "129000"]

Abstract:
Enhanced data buffer control in data systems is presented herein. In one example, a method of handling data buffer resources in a graphics processor includes establishing a pool of available memory pages tracked by memory pointers for use in a growable data structure. Responsive to requests by at least a shader unit of the graphics processor for space in the growable data structure in which to write shader data, the method includes providing to the shader unit at least write pointers to locations within memory pages from the growable data structure in accordance with data sizes indicated in the requests. Responsive to exceeding a threshold fullness of the growable data structure, the method includes allocating at least one further memory page from the pool of available memory pages for inclusion in the growable data structure.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n receiving combined requests from the shader unit that group requests for an associated plurality of shader threads of at least a wave of threads or threadgroup of the shader unit; for write space requests among the combined requests, determining a quantity of requested space for writing into the growable data structure by the associated plurality of shader threads, and based at least on the quantity of requested space, providing to the shader unit a write pointer indicating a start location in the growable data structure to begin writing corresponding shader data for the associated plurality of shader threads, write count information indicating quantities of the shader data able to be written in an initial write page, and an additional write pointer indicating at least one further write page in the growable data structure into which the corresponding shader data can be spanned from the initial write page; and for read requests among the combined requests, determining a quantity of requested read data to be retrieved from the growable data structure by the associated plurality of shader threads, providing to the shader unit a read pointer indicating a read start location for an initial read page in the growable data structure to begin retrieving the read data by the associated plurality of shader threads, read count information indicating quantities of valid read data in the initial read page, and an additional read pointer indicating at least one further read page in the growable data structure for which the read data has been spanned from the initial page.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15482535', '14095335', '15343905', '11169246', '11609831']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4968682067094784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4827751842483617
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4954589044633668
- Mean Citation Score: 158.93461799999997
- Max Citation Score: 171.65208
- Similarity Product: 114.82302023750783

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test