Nvidia patents API to change how software tasks depend on each other
Nvidia describes a method where a software command can change the relationship between different parts of a program. This allows developers to alter how tasks rely on one another within a complex software structure.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause dependency type information of one or more graph nodes of a software graph to be modified. In at least one embodiment, one or more dependency types from a graph are modified.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors, comprising: circuitry to, in response to an application programming interface (API) call, cause dependency type information of one or more graph nodes of a software graph to be modified, wherein modifying the dependency type information comprises altering the dependency type information from a first dependency type to a second dependency type of a plurality of dependency types, the second dependency type indicated by one or more input parameters of the API call.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- Application programming interface to modify graph dependencies
- Patent number
- US12761972B1
- Application number
- 18114837
- Filed
- Feb 27, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 9/5072 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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