Nvidia patents API to pause specific graphics tasks on a GPU
Nvidia describes a software command that lets developers temporarily stop specific graphics tasks running on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The system uses an application programming interface (API) to pause these instructions based on specific identifiers, allowing them to be resumed later.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform one or more application programming interfaces to cause a graphic processing unit (GPU) to pause one or more instructions and/or cause one or more instructions to be resumed. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors comprising one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to pause performance of one or more graphics processing unit (GPU) instructions, wherein the GPU instructions are associated with a context or application indicated to the API.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors comprising: circuitry to perform an application programming interface (API) to pause performance of one or more graphics processing unit (GPU) instructions scheduled to be performed on a GPU, wherein the GPU instructions are associated with one or more identifiers indicated to the API.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO PAUSE INSTRUCTIONS
- Publication number
- US20260320727A1
- Application number
- 19175736
- Filed
- Apr 10, 2025
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 27
Classified under
G06T 1/20 Physics & computingG06F 9/54 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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