Nvidia patents software that fixes slow computer tasks while they run
Nvidia has been granted a patent for a method that watches computer programs as they run to find wasted effort. It compares the program's actions against a list of known bad habits or outdated commands. If it spots a problem, the system automatically takes steps to fix it right away.
In the filing’s own words
Methods and systems for comparing information obtained during execution of a workload to a set of inefficiency patterns, and determining the workload includes a potential inefficiency when the information matches at least one of the set of inefficiency patterns.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: executing a workload on a computing system; monitoring execution of the workload to obtain information by intercepting one or more calls to one or more operations of a plurality of operations caused to be executed by the workload; detecting during execution of the workload that the one or more operations, which are called by the one or more calls, include functions includes a potential inefficiency if the information matches at least one of a predetermined set of inefficiency patterns stored in memory or an obsolete function; and if the potential inefficiency is detected, performing, by the computing system, at least one action to address the potential inefficiency.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- Detecting and optimizing program workload inefficiencies at runtime
- Patent number
- US12737278B2
- Application number
- 17850847
- Filed
- Jun 27, 2022
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 11
- Claims
- 32
Classified under
G06F 11/3612 Physics & computingMore from Nvidia in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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