System for distributing font resources over a computer network

Details System for distributing font resources over a computer network System for distributing font resources over a computer network

1997-06-10

2000-06-06

Feild, Joseph H.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

345467, G06T 1100, G06K 1500

Patent

active

060731478

ABSTRACT:
A network system includes a font resource server that is accessible to all devices that communicate via the network. The font server contains the necessary information pertaining to the various types of fonts that may be required by users. This information describes the characters in a font in both a bitmap form and an outline form, so that either type of font information can be selectively employed at any given site. When a document is transmitted from the site of its creation to a remote site, the computer at the remote site first determines whether information pertaining to all of the fonts contained in the document is stored at the remote site. If not, the necessary font resources are downloaded from the font server to the remote site, via any suitable communication network. Once the resources have been downloaded, the document can be viewed and printed at the remote site.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5432899 (1995-07-01), Iwatani et al.
patent: 5533174 (1996-07-01), Flowers, Jr. et al.
patent: 5737599 (1998-04-01), Rowe et al.

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