Systems and methods for dynamically providing fonts based on language settings

• US 9,838,444 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2013
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Ip, Isabella, Pereira Filho, Luiz Amaral Franca, Bono, Hironori, Williams, Clayton, Harris, Jeff Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): MCINTOSH, ANDREW T
• Application Number:
  US13/784,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20130326348A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,737 Days
• Field of Search: 715269
• 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;

receiving an indication of a first locale of the user device, the first locale being associated with a first language;

detecting an update to a language associated with the document in response to receiving an indication that the locale of the user device has changed, since the last time the user device accessed the document, from the first locale to a second locale, the second locale being different from the first locale and being associated with a second language different from the first language;

determining fonts associated with the update to the language;

comparing the fonts determined to be associated with the update to the language to a font list received from the user device to determine that at least one of the fonts associated with the update to the language is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the fonts associated with the update to the language that is not available on the user device to the user device,

wherein when text is added to the document by a second user device that is coupled to the user device via the network, during simultaneous editing of the document by the user device and the second user device, and the text is indicative of a font that is not available on the user device, the method further comprises providing the font to the user device.

2. 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.

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

determining new fonts associated with the update to the language;

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.

4. 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;

receiving an indication of a first locale of the user device, the first locale being associated with a first language;

detecting an update to a language associated with the document in response to receiving an indication that the locale of the user device has changed, since the last time the user device accessed the document, from the first locale to a second locale, the second locale being different from the first locale and being associated with a second language different from the first language;

determining fonts associated with the update to the language;

comparing the fonts determined to be associated with the update to the language to a font list received from the user device to determine that at least one of the fonts associated with the update to the language is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the fonts associated with the update to the language that is not available to on the user device to the user device,

wherein when text is added to the document by a second user device that is coupled to the user device via the network, during simultaneous editing of the document by the user device and the second user device, and the text is indicative of a font that is not available on the user device, the operations further comprise providing the font to the user device.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, 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.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, the operations further comprising:

receiving a new locale of the user device;

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

determining new fonts associated with the update to the language;

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.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium, which, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a first indication of a first locale of a user device, the first locale being associated with a first language;

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

detecting an update to a language associated with a document in response to the receiving the second indication, the second indication indicating that the locale of the user device has changed, since the last time the user device accessed the document, from the first locale to the second locale, the second locale being different from the first locale and being associated with a second language different from the first language;

determining new fonts associated with the update to the language;

comparing the fonts determined to be associated with the update to the language to a font list received from the user device to determine that at least one of the new fonts associated with the update to the language is not available on the user device; and

providing the at least one of the new fonts associated with the update to the language that is not available on the user device to the user device,

wherein when text is added to the document by a second user device that is coupled to the user device via a network, during simultaneous editing of the document by the user device and the second user device, and the text is indicative of a font that is not available on the user device, the operations further comprise providing the font to the user device.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, 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.