Initiating Font Subsets

• US 20140115453A1
• Filed: 12/23/2013
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monotype Imaging (Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Monotype Imaging (Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Steve Hsing
• Granted Patent: US 10,572,574 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/269
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes analyzing content of a received electronic document in an autonomous manner to identify each unique character of one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document. The method also includes initiating a request for a subset of one or more of the fonts included in the content of the electronic document, wherein the request includes each identified unique character of the respective one or more fonts.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

analyzing content of a received electronic document in an autonomous manner to identify each unique character of one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document; and

initiating a request for a subset of one or more of the fonts included in the content of the electronic document, wherein the request includes each identified unique character of the respective one or more fonts.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which analyzing the content of the electronic document includes identifying a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which analyzing the content of the electronic document includes identifying the absence of a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which analyzing content of a received electronic document in an autonomous manner is initiated by executing an agent.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which analyzing content of the received electronic document includes parsing the content of the electronic document to identify the characters represented in the document.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 in which analyzing content of the received electronic document includes filtering the identified characters represented in the electronic document to identify each unique character for each of the one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which initiating a request for a subset of one or more of the fonts includes adding the identified characters to a request.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which a response to the request includes all characters of one of the fonts.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 in which analyzing the content of the electronic document is performed independent of platform.

10. A system comprising:

a font server for providing to a computing device, upon request, an agent for analyzing content of an electronic document received by the computing device, wherein the analysis performed by the agent identifies each unique character of one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document;

wherein the font server is configured to produce, upon request from the computing device, a subset for one or more of the fonts in which each font subset includes each identified unique character of the respective font; and

wherein the font server is further configured to initiate sending each font subset to the computing device.

11. The system of claim 10 in which by analyzing the content of the received electronic document, the agent identifies a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

12. The system of claim 10 in which by analyzing the content of the received electronic document, the agent identifies the absence of a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

13. The system of claim 10 in which the computing device executes the agent received from the font server to analyze the content of the received electronic document.

14. The system of claim 10 in which the agent parses the content of the electronic document to identify the characters represented in the document.

15. The system of claim 14 in which the agent filters the identified characters represented in the document to identify each unique character for each of the one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document.

16. The system of claim 10 in which the agent initiates production of the request for the font server.

17. The system of claim 10 in which the agent is configured to operate independent of the computing device type.

18. The system of claim 10 in which the font server is configured to determine the portion of font characters to include in the font subset.

19. The system of claim 18, in which the portion of the font characters to include in the font subset includes all characters of the font.

20. The system of claim 20, in which the font server associates the produced font subset to the received electronic document.

21. A computing device comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method comprising;

analyzing content of a received electronic document in an autonomous manner to identify each unique character of one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document; and

initiating a request for a subset of one or more of the fonts included in the content of the electronic document, wherein the request includes each identified unique character of the respective one or more fonts.

22. The computing device of claim 21, in which analyzing the content of the electronic document includes identifying a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

23. The computing device of claim 21, in which analyzing the content of the electronic document includes identifying the absence of a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

24. The computing device of claim 21, in which analyzing content of a received electronic document in an autonomous manner is initiated by executing an agent.

25. The computing device of claim 21, in which analyzing content of the received electronic document includes parsing the content of the electronic document to identify the characters represented in the document.

26. The computing device of claim 25, in which analyzing content of the received electronic document includes filtering the identified characters represented in the electronic document to identify each unique character for each of the one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document.

27. The computing device of claim 21, in which initiating a request for a subset of one or more of the fonts includes adding the identified characters to a request.

28. One or more computer readable media storing instructions that are executable by a processing device, and upon such execution cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

analyzing content of a received electronic document in an autonomous manner to identify each unique character of one or more fonts included in the content of the electronic document; and

initiating a request for a subset of one or more of the fonts included in the content of the electronic document, wherein the request includes each identified unique character of the respective one or more fonts.

29. The computer readable media of claim 28, in which analyzing the content of the electronic document includes identifying a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.

30. The computer readable media of claim 28, in which analyzing the content of the electronic document includes identifying the absence of a source of a font included in the one or more fonts.