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Cognitive font enrichment management for adding system fonts

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSu Liu, Boyi Tzen, Fan Yang, Syed I. Haiderzaidi

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Abstract

Methods and systems for cognitive font enrichment management for adding system fonts are provided. A system for providing cognitive font enrichment management for adding system fonts includes a monitoring module that monitors web font operations. The system also includes a font conversion module that identifies a web font associated with a new glyph that is not described in a local system font repository and converts the identified web font associated with the new glyph into a default system font format. Further, the system includes a validation module that validates the converted web font associated with the new glyph. Additionally, the system includes an update module that updates the local system font repository with the validated converted web font associated with the new glyph.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a monitoring module that:
maintains a web font list of different known system font formats included in a local system font repository,
monitors web information received from a web server to identify each web font included in the web information,
receives, from the web server, new web information from a website comprising a new glyph that includes a web font associated with the new glyph,
independently and unilaterally determines whether the web font associated with the new glyph in the received new web information is a known web font by comparing the web font associated with the new glyph in the received new web information and each known system font format in the web font list of different known system font formats to determine whether a set of first characteristics of the web font associated with the new glyph matches a set of second characteristics of one or more known system font formats in the web font of known system font formats,
in response to the set of first characteristics of the web font associated with the new glyph not matching the set of second characteristics of any known system font format in the web font list of different known web fonts, independently and unilaterally identifies the web font associated with the new glyph as an unknown web font,
compares the set of first characteristics of the unknown web font to the set of second characteristics for each different known system font format in the web font list of different known system font formats included in the local system font repository to independently and unilaterally determine which known system font format is most similar to the unknown web format,
independently and unilaterally selects, as a new default system font format for the unknown web font, the known system font format in the web font list of different system font formats that includes the set of second characteristics that are the most similar to the set of first characteristics of the unknown web font, and
in response to the selection, independently and unilaterally changing a current default system font format for the website to the new default system font format for the unknown web font;
a font conversion module that converts the unknown web font associated with the new glyph into the new default system font format;
a validation module that validates the converted unknown web font associated with the new glyph;
and
an update module that updates the web font list of different known system font formats in the local system font repository with the validated converted unknown web font associated with the new glyph,
wherein at least a portion of each of said modules comprises one or more of a set of hardware circuits, a set of programmable hardware devices, and executable code stored on a set of non-transitory computer-readable storage media.

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A method, comprising:

monitoring, by a processor, web information received from a web server to identify each web font included in the web information;
maintaining, by the processor, a web font list of different known system font formats included in a local system font repository;
receiving, by the processor from the web server, new web information from a website comprising a new glyph that includes a web font associated with the new glyph,
independently and unilaterally determining, by the processor, whether the web font associated with the new glyph in the received new web information is a known web font by comparing the web font associated with the new glyph in the received new web information and each known system font format in the web font list of different known system font formats to determine whether a set of first characteristics of the web font associated with the new glyph matches a set of second characteristics of one or more known system font formats in the web font list of known system font formats;
in response to the set of first characteristics of the web font associated with the new glyph not matching the set of second characteristics of any known system font format in the web font list of different known web fonts, independently and unilaterally identifying, by the processor, the web font associated with the new glyph as an unknown web font;
comparing, by the processor, the set of first characteristics of the unknown web font to the set of second characteristics for each different known system font format in the web font list of different known system font formats included in the local system font repository to independently and unilaterally determine which known system font format is most similar to the unknown web format;
independently and unilaterally selecting, by the processor, as a new default system font format for the unknown web font, the known system font format in the web font list of different system font formats that includes the set of second characteristics that are the most similar to the set of first characteristics of the unknown web font;
in response to the selection, independently and unilaterally changing, by the processor, a current default system font format for the website to the new default system font format for the unknown web font;
converting, by the processor, the unknown web font associated with the new glyph into the new default system font format;
validating, by the processor, the converted unknown web font associated with the new glyph;
and
updating, by the processor, the web font list of different known system font formats in the local system font repository with the validated converted unknown web font associated with the new glyph.

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A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium including program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

maintain a web font list of different known system font formats included in a local system font repository;
monitor web information received from a web server to identify each web font included in the web information;
receive, from the web server, new web information from a website comprising a new glyph that includes a web font associated with the new glyph,
independently and unilaterally determine whether the web font associated with the new glyph in the received new web information is a known web font by comparing the web font associated with the new glyph in the received new web information and each known system font format in the web font list of different known system font formats to determine whether a set of first characteristics of the web font associated with the new glyph matches a set of second characteristics of one or more known system font formats in the web font list of known system font formats;
in response to the set of first characteristics of the web font associated with the new glyph not matching the set of second characteristics of any known system font format in the web font list of different known web fonts, independently and unilaterally identify the web font associated with the new glyph as an unknown web font;
compare the set of first characteristics of the unknown web font to the set of second characteristics for each different known system font format in the web font list of different known system font formats included in the local system font repository to independently and unilaterally determine which known system font format is most similar to the unknown web format;
independently and unilaterally select, as a new default system font format for the unknown web font, the known system font format in the web font list of different system font formats that includes the set of second characteristics that are the most similar to the set of first characteristics of the unknown web font;
in response to the selection, independently and unilaterally change a current default system font format for the website to the new default system font format for the unknown web font;
convert the unknown web font associated with the new glyph into the new default system font format;
validate the converted unknown web font associated with the new glyph;
and
update the web font list of different known system font formats in the local system font repository with the validated converted unknown web font associated with the new glyph.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/171,888Filed 26 Oct 2018
Published: US 2020/0134000 A130 Apr 2020
Granted: 7 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 40/109
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
G06F 16/955
Retrieval from the web: using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/535
Network services: tracking the activity of the user

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