US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on May 6 for "Video memory management method, apparatus, device and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,821, issued on May 6, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Video memory management method, apparatus, device and system" was invented by Wengcong Xiao (Hangzhou, China), Shiru Ren (Beijing) and Yong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video memory management method is provided. The method includes: determining priorities of a plurality of machine learning tasks executed by a graphics processing unit; if video memory resources are to be allocated for a higher-priority task, and an amount of allocatable video memory resources is smaller than an amount of video memory resources required by...