Systems and Methods for Dynamically Providing Fonts Based on Language Settings

• US 20130326348A1
• Filed: 03/04/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Ip, Isabella, Harris, Jeff Scott, Pereira Filho, Luiz Amaral Franca, Bono, Hironori, Williams, Clayton
• Granted Patent: US 9,838,444 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/269
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A server dynamically provides fonts to a user device. The user device is provided with access to a document via a network. An update to a language parameter associated with the document is detected. Fonts associated with the update to the language parameter are determined. It is determined at least one of the fonts is not available on the user device. The at least one of the fonts is provided to the user device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing to a user device access to a document via a network;

detecting an update to a language parameter associated with the document;

determining fonts associated with the update to the language parameter;

determining that at least one of the fonts is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the fonts to the user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of detecting the update to the language parameter is in response to at least one of:

receiving an indication of a locale of the user device;

receiving document language settings of the online document;

receiving an indication of a language associated with the online document; and

receiving contents of the online document.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the language parameter is associated with one or more languages associated with the document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing the at least one of the fonts to the user device comprises providing a font file associated with the at least one of the fonts, wherein the font file comprises a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining that at least one of the fonts is not available on the user device further comprises:

comparing the fonts to a list of stored fonts stored on a font list of the user device.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving an updated font list that includes the at least one of the fonts.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising one of:

receiving a second indication of a second locale of the user device;

detecting a second indication of a second update to the language parameter associated with the document;

determining new fonts associated with the update to the language parameter;

determining that at least one of the second fonts is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the second fonts to the user device.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory to store computer program instructions, the computer program instructions when executed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

providing to a user device access to a document via a network;

detecting an update to a language parameter associated with the document;

determining fonts associated with the update to the language parameter;

determining that at least one of the fonts is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the fonts to the user device.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the operations for detecting the update to the language parameter is in response to operations comprising at least one of:

receiving an indication of a locale of the user device;

receiving document language settings of the online document;

receiving an indication of a language associated with the online document; and

receiving contents of the online document.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the language parameter is associated with one or more languages associated with the document.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the operations for providing the at least one of the fonts to the user device comprises providing a font file associated with the at least one of the fonts, wherein the font file comprises a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the operations for determining that at least one of the fonts is not available on the user device further comprises:

comparing the fonts to a list of stored fonts stored on a font list of the user device.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, the operations further comprising:

receiving an updated font list that includes the at least one of the fonts.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, the operations further comprising:

receiving a new locale of the user device;

detecting a new update to the language parameter associated with the document;

determining new fonts associated with the update to the language parameter;

determining that at least one of the new fonts is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the new fonts to the user device.

15. A computer readable medium storing computer program instructions, which, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising one of:

receiving a second indication of a second locale of the user device;

detecting a second indication of a second update to the language parameter associated with the document;

determining new fonts associated with the update to the language parameter;

determining that at least one of the second fonts is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the second fonts to the user device.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations for detecting the update to the language parameter is in response to operations comprising at least one of:

receiving an indication of a locale of the user device;

receiving document language settings of the online document;

receiving an indication of a language associated with the online document; and

receiving contents of the online document.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the language parameter is associated with one or more languages associated with the document.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations for providing the at least one of the fonts to the user device comprises providing a font file associated with the at least one of the fonts, wherein the font file comprises a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations for determining that at least one of the fonts is not available on the user device further comprises:

comparing the fonts to a list of stored fonts stored on a font list of the user device.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

receiving an updated font list that includes the at least one of the fonts.