PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881572
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "420000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, a deduplication application pre-processes index buffers for a graphics processing pipeline that generates rendered images via a shading program. In operation, the deduplication application causes execution threads to identify a set of unique vertices specified in an index buffer based on an instruction. The deduplication application then generates a vertex buffer and an indirect index buffer based on the set of unique vertices. The vertex buffer and the indirect index buffer are associated with a portion of an input mesh. The graphics processing pipeline then renders a first frame and a second frame based on the vertex buffer, the indirect index buffer, and the shading program. Advantageously, the graphics processing pipeline may re-use the vertex buffer and indirect index buffer until the topology of the input mesh changes.

Claim (Index 14):
The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 10 , wherein identifying the first plurality of unique vertices comprises:\n causing the first plurality of execution threads to execute the first instruction on a first plurality of vertices specified in the first index buffer to identify a first unique vertex included in the first plurality of vertices and a first duplicate vertex included in the first plurality of vertices; selecting a second plurality of vertices specified in the first index buffer, wherein the second plurality of vertices includes the first unique vertex but does not include the first duplicate vertex; and causing the first plurality of execution threads to execute the first instruction on the second plurality of vertices to identify at least one vertex in the first plurality of unique vertices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32787
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15881564', '14790452', '12505402', '12331307', '13723078']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7121578066572295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5570284757295165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6966448735644581
- Mean Citation Score: 334.77028199999995
- Max Citation Score: 443.7023
- Similarity Product: 342.0754174876153

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