MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202518096701 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Oct. 7, for 'on-demand memory allocation.'
Inventor(s) include Hensley, Justin A.; Mann, Karl D.; Foo, Yoong Chert; Potter, Terence M.; Liljeros, Frank W.; and Taylor, Ralph C.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Techniques are disclosed relating to dynamically allocating and mapping private memory for requesting circuitry (210). Disclosed circuitry (220) may receive a private address and translate the private address to a virtual address (which an MMU (230) may then translate to 5 physical address to actually access a storage element (240)). In some embodiments, private memory allocation circuitry (220) is configured to generate page table information and map private memory pages for requests if the page table information is not already setup. In various embodiments, this may advantageously allow dynamic private memory allocation, e g., to efficiently allocate memory for graphics shaders with different types of workloads. 10 Disclosed caching techniques for page table information may improve performance relative to traditional techniques. Further, disclosed embodiments may facilitate memory consolidation across a device such as a graphics processor."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 24, 2021, under International application No.PCT/US2021/019353.
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