Google Inc.

Paul Lalonde

Paul Leventis

Jean-François Roy

Aki Kuusela

Dov Shimon Zimring

Clinton Smullen

Jani Huoponen

Nicholas Vining

Methods and systems for rendering distinct components of a combined user interface (UI) are described herein. A processing device receives a user request for a media item to be presented via a combined UI including one or more video content components and one or more UI control components. The processing device generates a rendering of the video content components and transmits a first stream including the rendering of the video content components to an endpoint device, wherein the first stream is encoded to a first resolution and wherein the rendering of the video content components is to be merged with a rendering of the UI control components into the combined UI at the endpoint device, the combined UI having a second resolution.

Variable end-point user interface rendering

Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.

Memory management in gaming rendering

This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.

Methods and systems for rendering and encoding content for online interactive gaming sessions

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Paul Lalonde