Google received 1 granted patent in cloud gaming.
The patent covers infrastructure for time-sharing GPU processing slices across multiple concurrent gaming sessions. This cloud gaming technology simultaneously encodes low-latency streams for active players and normal-latency streams for spectators watching the gameplay.
Google's single cloud gaming patent tackles the challenge of efficiently serving both players and spectators from shared GPU resources. The system divides GPU time into slices that rotate across multiple active gaming sessions, ensuring each player receives consistent processing power. A priority-based dual-stream encoder guarantees that player streams maintain low latency while opportunistically using any remaining processing time within each frame interval to encode spectator streams at normal latency. The encoder pipeline processes tiles in parallel and pre-fetches boundary information before complete block data arrives, shaving additional milliseconds off the time between rendering and transmission.
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