US 7,609,398 B2Granted

System and method for rendering fonts for tabbed paper stock on a network

AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKatie Kuwata, Truc Nguyen, William Su

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Abstract

This invention is directed to a system and method for storing font image data, which is already rendered, in a history-based order on the server side. This avoids the server side processing time to render the font every time a request is received. This allows users to use many server side fonts that users may not have on their client workstations. In the method, the user uses a web browser to choose a font type, size, and style from a list of available fonts installed on the server. The system then determines if the selected font exists in the font repository. If the font exists, the system retrieves the font images from the font repository. If the font does not exist, the system creates the font images and stores the font images to the font repository.

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Dependent claims

A networked font rendering system comprising:

a web server for generating a web page image on a browser running on a networked workstation wherein the web page image includes data corresponding to document finishing options for at least one associated electronic document, including at least one tab option corresponding to at least one selectable font for use in connection with a selected document finishing option;
means for receiving selection data via the web page, which selection data includes at least one selected finishing option and at least one font selection corresponding thereto;
testing means for testing for availability of bitmapped font image data corresponding the at least one font selection;
means for acquiring vector data representative of a vector based font corresponding to each font selection for which no availability of bitmapped font image data is indicated by the testing means;
rendering means for rendering a portion of the vector based font to generate bitmapped font images corresponding to characters required for rending the selected finishing option;
means for associating time stamp data corresponding to a time corresponding to the rendering of the vector based font;
font storage means for storing the rendered bitmapped font images on a networked memory associatively with the time stamp data;
means for deleting the rendered bitmapped font images in accordance with passage of a selected duration relative to the time stamp data;
and
communication means for selectively communicating the font images from the font storage means and the electronic document to at least one networked printer to generate document print data in accordance with a request from networked workstation so as to generate a printout including a rendering of the electronic document and a rendering of each selected finishing option from the font images.

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A method for rendering fonts in a networked system comprising the steps of:

generating a web page image, via a web server, on a browser running on a networked workstation wherein the web page image includes data corresponding to document finishing options for at least one associated electronic document including at least one of pagination options and page numbering options, and font selection options corresponding to at least one selectable font for use in connection with a selected document finishing option;
receiving selection data via the web page, which selection data includes at least one selected finishing option and at least one font selection corresponding thereto;
testing for availability of bitmapped font image data corresponding the at least one font selection;
acquiring vector data representative of a vector based font corresponding to each font selection for which no availability of bitmapped font image data is indicated by the testing;
rendering at least a portion of the vector based font to generate bitmapped font images corresponding to characters required for rendering the selected finishing option;
associating time stamp data corresponding to a time corresponding to the rendering of the vector based font;
storing the rendered bitmapped font images on a networked memory associatively with the time stamp data;
deleting the rendered bitmapped font images in accordance with passage of a selected duration relative to the time stamp data;
and
selectively communicating the font images from the memory and the electronic document to at least one networked printer to generate document print data in accordance with a request from networked workstation so as to generate a printout including a rendering of the electronic document and a rendering of each selected finishing option from the font images.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.