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US 12,288,081 · App. 17/903,763 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Running a legacy application on a non-legacy device with application-specific operating parameters for backwards compatibility

Inventors: David Simpson (Los Angeles, CA); Mark Evan Cerny (Burbank, MA)
Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
G06F9/44505G06F11/3419G06F11/3442G06F11/3452G06F8/76G06F2201/88
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Patent No.
US 12,288,081
App. No.
17/903,763
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method, system and computer readable medium for running a legacy application on a non-legacy device. Operating parameters of the non-legacy device when running the legacy application are set based on one or more pre-determined heuristics for adjustment of operating parameters of the newer system when running the legacy application on the non-legacy device from one or more performance metrics and other performance information.

Claims (24)

1. A method for running a legacy application on a non-legacy device, comprising: setting operating parameters of the non-legacy device when running the legacy application based on one or more pre-determined heuristics for adjustment of operating parameters of the non-legacy device when running the legacy application on the non-legacy device from one or more performance metrics and other performance information.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more performance metrics determined from counting clock cycles between events during program execution.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more performance metrics determined from values stored in one or more dedicated processor registers that keep track of information related to execution of the legacy application.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the values stored in the one or more dedicated processor registers includes a counter value.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the counter value is a program counter value.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the counter value is a value of a counter for memory cycles, arithmetic logic unit (ALU) cycles, or pixels.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more performance metrics are determined from detected busy waits.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more key performance metrics include to frames per second.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more key performance metrics include instructions per cycle (IPC) binned to a program counter (PC) range.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the other performance information is derived indirectly.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the other performance information includes an average parallel processing hardware scheduling unit occupancy per unit time, an average parallel processing hardware scheduling unit lifetime, an average latency for memory operations, or a count of pixels output to render targets per unit time.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining one or more performance information values that are useful for tuning operating parameters of the system.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein determining the one or more performance information values that are useful for tuning operating parameters of the system includes determining one or more correlations between changes in key performance information values and operating parameters.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein determining one or more performance information values that are useful for tuning operating parameters of the system includes determining one or more correlations between changes in key performance information values and operating parameters through multivariate analysis.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-legacy device is a video game system.

16. A system, comprising:

a processor; and a memory;

storing processor executable instructions, the processor executable instructions being configured to implement a method for running a legacy application on a non-legacy device, the method comprising:

setting one or more operating parameters of the non-legacy device when running the legacy application based on one or more pre-determined heuristics for adjustment of operating parameters of the non-legacy device when running the legacy application on the non-legacy device from one or more performance metrics and other performance information.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instructions embodied therein, the computer readable instructions being configured to implement a method for running a legacy application on a non-legacy device, the method comprising:

setting operating parameters of the non-legacy device based on one or more pre-determined heuristics for adjustment of operating parameters of the non-legacy device when running the legacy application on the non-legacy device from one or more performance metrics and other information.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more performance metrics determined from counting clock cycles between events during program execution.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more performance metrics determined from values stored in one or more dedicated processor registers that keep track of information related to execution of the legacy application.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the one or more pre-determined heuristics use one or more performance metrics are determined from detected busy waits.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 6, 2022
From: CERNY, MARK EVAN; SIMPSON, DAVID
To: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
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Continuity (5)
Continuation 17170692 · Feb 8, 2021
Continuation 16408054 · May 9, 2019
Continuation 15466769 · Mar 22, 2017
Provisional Application 62315345 · Mar 30, 2016
Related Publication 20230004405A1 · Jan 5, 2023
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