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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2011
Applicants:

Robert Scott Hartog, Windemere, FL (US);

Ralph Clay Taylor, Deland, FL (US);

Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);

Kevin Mcgrath, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Sebastien Nussbaum, Lexington, MA (US);

Nuwan Jayasena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rex Mccrary, Oviedo, FL (US);

Mark Leather, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Philip J. Rogers, Pepperell, MA (US);

Thomas R. Woller, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Robert Scott Hartog, Windemere, FL (US);

Ralph Clay Taylor, Deland, FL (US);

Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);

Kevin McGrath, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Sebastien Nussbaum, Lexington, MA (US);

Nuwan Jayasena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rex McCrary, Oviedo, FL (US);

Mark Leather, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Philip J. Rogers, Pepperell, MA (US);

Thomas R. Woller, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 9/4812 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer readable media embodiments are disclosed for preemptive context-switching of processes running on a accelerated processing device. Embodiments include, detecting by an accelerated processing device a memory exception, and preempting a process from running on the accelerated processing device based upon the detected exception.


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