Patent 7140024 was granted and assigned to Silicon Graphics on November, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for managing graphics applications include the capability to manage the conveyance of graphics data from an aware graphics application to a plurality of graphics pipes and to manage the conveyance of graphics data from an unaware graphics application to a plurality of graphics pipes. The system and method also include the capability to coherently manage the windows for aware and unaware applications.