Today there remains no standard high-level API for 3D graphics.

The device driver performs low-level register writes and reads on the hardware, while exposing a standard API for developing user applications.

The only way to decrease the latency with Twitter's current standard API is to reduce the polling interval and request updates more frequently.

Instead, DAIS requires a standard API for the application to call a particular algorithm class.

There needs to be standard API for external game controllers on these systems.

Consequently, this variety has resulted in a desire for a standard API to unify efforts.

Other hardware and manufacturers can freely use this open standard API for hardware accelerated video processing with their own hardware without paying royalty fee.

It provides multithreading with standard API and allows for development in C/C++.

The 2-phase commit protocol is supported as well, but no standard API for distributed transactions is implemented.

With Web Server Gateway Interface, a standard API has been developed to facilitate these applications.