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 20):
The graphics processing apparatus of  claim 19 , comprising:\n for write requests among the data handling requests, the buffer system further configured to provide to the shader units write pointers indicating write start locations in the growable data structures to begin writing associated shader data, write count information indicating quantities of the associated shader data able to fit in memory pages corresponding to the write pointers, and second pointers indicating at least one of the additional memory pages into which the associated shader data can be spanned; and for read requests among the data handling requests, the buffer system further configured to provide to the shader units read pointers indicating read start locations in memory pages of the growable data structures to begin reading stored shader data from the growable data structures, and read count information indicating quantities of stored shader data valid on each of the memory pages indicated by the read pointers.

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): 0.4985186976439906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764714982215778
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4963139777017493
- Mean Citation Score: 158.93461799999997
- Max Citation Score: 171.65208
- Similarity Product: 121.78953718122484

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