Patent 8941669 was granted and assigned to NVIDIA on January, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Frames are rendered by multiple graphics processors (GPUs), which may be heterogeneous. Graphics processors split the execution of the command in a push buffer of a frame. One GPU begins rendering a frame, and a second GPU takes over rendering that frame after the second GPU is done rendering a previous frame. The second GPU may then begin rendering a subsequent frame.